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Date:      Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:43:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: my experiences so far... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.02.9811071242540.7469-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <199811072022.MAA05985@dingo.cdrom.com>

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> Thanks for all the effort, Matt.  This is really appreciated.
> 
> > So far, I haven't had much luck at Feral. I've a AlphaPC164 and a Multia.
> > The Alpha PC164 I usually just have a serial console for- and that seems
> > to be a problem (kernel freezes about at the point it should shift over to
> > a real console).
> 
> There was a bogon in syscons that would cause it to behave badly if 
> there wasn't a monitor on the system; this was fixed a little while 
> back (maybe a week or so?).

That was it. I popped a S3 card in, and had to force the console
to graphics, and am now in the sysinstall menu. Right on.



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