From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 11 8:58:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6BE537B503 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:58:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13jOGp-0000Fx-00; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:58:19 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9BG0T811862; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:00:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:00:29 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Chris Casey Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XP1000/Linux/things Message-ID: <20001011180029.E11608@freebie.demon.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from chriss@phys.ksu.edu on Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:00:34AM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:00:34AM -0500, Chris Casey wrote: > > Both the 4.1 and 4.1.1 install ISO end with the "Going nowhere without my > Init" and panic that I have seen discussed in the 4.1 RELNOTES.TXT. > I did have to remove a second non-bootable drive from the scsi chain to > get past this, but seem to have gotten past this OK. > > Whats the word on linux compat for the alpha. I have 3 of these XP1000 > with a crufty old redhat install on them that are in need of Cool.. XP1000. Would like one ;-) > repartitioning and new OS. The main issue is with this compaq fortran > compiler for linux. I remember people reporting some success with patches, > but I could not find a "Yep, it works, have fun" announcement. Has there > been any hinting at a fbsd version of this compiler from the Compaq > people? You might want to ping gallatin@freebsd.org or marcel@freebsd.org (Marcel is the Linuxulator guru) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message