Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:09:17 +0000 From: "Russell Howe" <rhowe@siksai.co.uk> To: Ulrich <freebsd-alpha@infopuls.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DEC 500a Message-ID: <20060228020917.GA2778@xiao.rsnet> In-Reply-To: <20060227231802.8883.qmail@igel.cyberlink.ch> References: <Pine.GSO.4.58a.0509070037220.11377@uhunix2> <20060227231802.8883.qmail@igel.cyberlink.ch>
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:18:02AM +0100, Ulrich wrote: > Hi Pete (and to all kind readers/helpers) > > have you been able to solve your problem of booting Release 5.4 on your > Alpha 500a? > > I'm asking because I encountered probably the same problem on more or less > the same type of machine (Miata). > > I'm booting with floppy, in fact with the 5 floppies I've prepared. > It goes smoothly until it is booting the kernel. > It eventually reports > > ... > pci0: <display, VGA> at device 11.0 (no driver attached) > pci0: <display> at device 12.0 (no driver attached) > > halted CPU 0 Apparently there's some firmware module you need to load for the SCSI chipset. I haven't got details handy, but I think that should get 5.4 booted. 6.0 still isn't booting for me, but that's something else and I haven't had chance to try different versions etc yet. -- Russell Howe | Why be just another cog in the machine, rhowe@siksai.co.uk | when you can be the spanner in the works?
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