From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 11 8: 0:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from phys.ksu.edu (schottky.phys.ksu.edu [129.130.5.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AEFC37B66C for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (chriss@localhost) by phys.ksu.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0/phys) with SMTP id KAA25991 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:00:34 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:00:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Casey To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: XP1000/Linux/things Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Both the 4.1 and 4.1.1 install ISO end with the "Going nowhere without my Init" and panic that I have seen discussed in the 4.1 RELNOTES.TXT. I did have to remove a second non-bootable drive from the scsi chain to get past this, but seem to have gotten past this OK. Whats the word on linux compat for the alpha. I have 3 of these XP1000 with a crufty old redhat install on them that are in need of repartitioning and new OS. The main issue is with this compaq fortran compiler for linux. I remember people reporting some success with patches, but I could not find a "Yep, it works, have fun" announcement. Has there been any hinting at a fbsd version of this compiler from the Compaq people? Also... We are seeing these machines lock up with the current redhat/metroX setup where the screen will freeze, even through a reboot, and wont respond again till the power is removed. Anoyone seen this happen with fbsd? It gets really old, and hopefully this will help me get away from redhat. Thanks Chris Casey Unix System Administrator KSU Physics Department To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message