Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 12:22:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: my experiences so far... Message-ID: <199811072022.MAA05985@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Nov 1998 11:42:41 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.02.9811071138030.7469-100000@feral-gw>
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> > (as I slowly shift over toward this....still involved in some legal > foo)... Thanks for all the effort, Matt. This is really appreciated. > So far, I haven't had much luck at Feral. I've a AlphaPC164 and a Multia. > The Alpha PC164 I usually just have a serial console for- and that seems > to be a problem (kernel freezes about at the point it should shift over to > a real console). There was a bogon in syscons that would cause it to behave badly if there wasn't a monitor on the system; this was fixed a little while back (maybe a week or so?). > The Multia I have on a monitor (actually this multia has an ARC instance > for linux && NT/Alpha and I switch it to SRM for NetBSD/Digital Unix)- but > in booting the latest boot.flp it puked all over my shoes with machine > checks and unexpected interrupts, yadda yadda yadda- I'm checking that > this wasn't a corrupt floppy (this has been known to have occurred before- > the floppies are really flakey on the multia) but that may not be the > case. I get this on my multia when halting; AFAIR NetBSD was doing this too, but not booting. We don't have anything in place for the TGA hardware yet though, so you're actually better off with a serial console on the Multia. There's work in progress on this; I think Thomas and Kazu will have something down in a couple of weeks, at which point it should be almost directly applicable to the older Alphas without character-cell displays as well. > Next step is to pop a graphics card into the PC164... drag... Well, > I'll try and all make it work... Should be OK like that. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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