Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 19:19:49 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: ALPHA Multia and FreeBSD 4.3-RC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104081911020.2675-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Hello. I have here a digital Multia (Alpha 21066 at 233 MHz) and I want to get this box work under FreeBSD 4.3. I installed successfuly FreeBSD 4.3-RC2 as I got this ISO-Image and booted the Multia with the apropriate disks. I have two problems: First: I have no access to the console! I just see all the output when booting, after activating 'console' in /etc/ttys I get only a login prompt, but the keyboard is dead - only the LEDs for CapsLock etc. are flashing when hiting the apropriate key. All in- output go through the serial console and that is crap. Can anybody tell me how to activate the Multia's console? I read about that the console is not supported, but, excuse this question, makes it any kind of sense installing an operating system on a Multia I can not gain access to? Second: I tried to make a world. Due the fact the machine is really slow it took a long time from starting the first make world up to the point it failed. My Multia reboots spontanously and shows me the console, awaiting the boot command. I saw this many times on Intel based systems when CPU reaches its limits due overheating, overclocking or bad hardware. What's up with the Alpha? The machine has 88MB memory, that seems to be enough for simple steps in making a world or similar. The system is attached to a 4GB IBM SCSI DCAS hdd... -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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