From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 28 17:55:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34ECE14ED6 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 17:55:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA08707; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:54:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA33147; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:54:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:54:28 -0400 (EDT) To: "Erik H. Bakke" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange problem with ATA on my 164SX In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14360.61161.234897.646014@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Erik H. Bakke writes: > > After some hours of scratching my head, saying bad words and endless reboot > cycles, I put the graphics card back in, just to see what happened, and lo and > behold... The system was back to normal again. > > So, this leads to an obvious question: > > Is FreeBSD supposed to be able to run headless on Alpha systems? Yes. We have over 20 alphas running FreeBSD headless here. 6 of them are DS10s with nothing but IDE drives (and local hacks to get them booting off of ide drives). Just a WAG: Try putting a DELAY(1000) at the top of ad_transfer. There are some timing issues I've seen w/addump that might be biting you. I have NFC why a graphics card would matter though. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message