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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


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