From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Apr 16 8:57: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7477F37B423; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA20908; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:56:56 -0700 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:56:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Wilko Bulte Cc: "David O'Brien" , alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ALpha 4100 boot issues In-Reply-To: <20010416100237.A81019@freebie.demon.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I don't know. Now that there's a new boot block and if I can get a free hour or two, I'll try again. On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:05:26PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Matt, do you think I should put this in the RELNOTES for 4.3R ? > I think I should. > > Wilko > > > [ cc'd to -alpha for broadcast ] > > > > The problem was one of the following two problems: > > > > 1. The Qlogic SCSI controller being booted from does not work if it is not in > > hose 0 (upper left, looking from rear). > > > > 2. If the QLogic SCSI controller is the 'bridged' DEC part (i.e., the part > > that has a 21150 bridge and the QLogic behind that), booting doesn't work. > > > > > > I'm not sure which, if any, it really is. I'm inclined to think that #1 may be > > broken for -current because hose 1 has the EISA console, and that there might > > be some funny interaction ther. > > > > I'm inclined to think that #2 might be broken period for -stable because we > > don't have clean hose management in -stable, IIRC. > > > > -matt > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:18:01AM +0000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > As for testing: has AS4[01]00 been tested succesfully? I'm using > > > > > > Speaking of AS4100 testing... Matt could you write a sentence or two > > > speaking of the problem the BSDi 4100 had and the limitations 4100 users > > > have to be aware of? It would be good to get it documented. > > > > ---end of quoted text--- > > -- > | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte FreeBSD/alpha Powered http://www.freebsd.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message