From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 9 12:11:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 455FA37B416; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 12:11:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB9KGbe01141; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 12:16:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200112092016.fB9KGbe01141@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Thomas.Kovacs@t-online.de (Thomas Kovacs) Cc: "'Wilko Bulte'" , "'Andrew Gallatin'" , obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AW: AW: AW: as2100 unexpected machine check while installing In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Dec 2001 11:33:06 PST." <000001c180e8$53f68f40$0100a8c0@rebecca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 12:16:37 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bug(s) in the Mylex driver. Matthew Dodd has my controllers, so I can't fix this, sorry. Pester him; he was going to maintain this driver. 8( > Ok. I tried your build. The Mylex is being recognised. Disklabel is > writing information's onto the disks and the "partitions" (sorry, still > thinking in NT...) where successfully created. Then I choose "minimal" > and the installation starts. And now to the part, where I was nearly > started crying: > > - the copy process gets slower and slower > - it seems like the machine freezes > > when I opened the console "alt+f2" I saw this nice messages: > > -> mlx0: I/O error - attempt to write beyond end of drive > > I updated the Mylex bios to 2.7 (3.xx would work but I don't know by now > where to get this 2nd chip...) I went back to NT console and installed > it. It worked... > Restarted the FreeBSD installation. Same error. > > Any ideas??? > > Thx, Thomas > > -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht----- > Von: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG] Im Auftrag von Wilko Bulte > Gesendet: Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2001 23:54 > An: Andrew Gallatin; obrien@FreeBSD.ORG > Cc: Thomas Kovacs; freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG > Betreff: Re: AW: AW: as2100 unexpected machine check while installing > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:51:32PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 03:00:26PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > >=20 > > > Thomas Kovacs writes: > > > > Me again... > > > >=20 > > > > Back from holydays I tried to install FreeBSD on the alpha > (AS2100 > > > > 5/300). As I said before, I was able to boot. But with your disks > the > > > > system is not recognizing my CD drive :( . Unfortunately the ftp > > >=20 > > > > > I'm willing to send out some fine German Christmas beer (strong, > but > > > > good :). > > > >=20 > > >=20 > > > Wilko mentioned something about building an alpha snapshot last > week. > > > Perhaps he could post the install floppies.. That would be the > > > easiest thing. > >=20 > > I built a snapshot, after David trimmed the bootfloppy kernel > (again..) > > that worked OK. I'm waiting for David to tell me where he wants the > > snapshot to go (it is destined for ftp-master I think). > > For now it (the miniinst.iso; disc2.iso is still uploading) is as > http://people.freebsd.org/~wilko/alpha-snap > > I'm waiting for David's input on how to get it on ftp-master. > > Wilko > [who likes German beer BTW ;) ] > --=20 > | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands=09 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message