Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:03:05 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Mike Eldridge <diz@cafes.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alpha multia axp (aka noname) boot problems Message-ID: <20001018200305.O1832@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010161404390.1773-100000@mail.cafes.net>; from diz@cafes.net on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:14:41PM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010161404390.1773-100000@mail.cafes.net>
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:14:41PM -0500, Mike Eldridge wrote: > I have an Alpha Multia AXP 166mhz box that I've been running Linux on for > a couple of years and decided I'd try FreeBSD. I created the two 1.44MB > floppies needed and booted with them. I kept getting the soft errors as > described in some of the FreeBSD documentation. During kernel boot, it > spit out "dec_axppci_33_intr_map: bad interrupt pin 192" about 80 times > and then the kernel failed with a memory management fault. Sounds like this might be an SRM version issue. I'll put up a late-version SRM for Multia at ftp://www.tcja.nl/pub/wilko anytime soon. > I've also read that you can't use FreeBSD on the console with Multias > because of some issue with the video card. I'm not quite sure I > understand why this is, I ran Linux on the console just fine (I even got > it to run X!, although only at 640x480). This is because there is no TGA driver in FreeBSD/alpha. -- 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
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