From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Mar 25 17:38:28 2000 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 140ED37B7D3 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 17:38:17 -0800 (PST) (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 (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00786; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 20:38:11 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA19769; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 20:37:41 -0500 (EST) (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: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 20:37:41 -0500 (EST) To: picapau@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 1000 freezing during installation In-Reply-To: <20000325181342.A88910@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br> References: <20000325181342.A88910@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14557.27001.718759.711008@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andre Severo writes: > Hi, > > I'm running into some trouble trying to install release 4.0 on > an Alpha Server 1000 (SRM V4.8-65): > > #1. Sometimes the bootstrapping sequence fails to > assess the size of some of my hard disks (da1 & da2), > sometimes missing all three of them; > > 2. When I get to the installantion program i can't get past > network setup screen: my box freezes and has to be rebooted > (i'm installing via NFS) I'm afraid I cannot help with the disk problem, but I believe there may be issues with either the Intel Pro100B or its driver on the alpha. Do you have another PCI network card you could use? Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message