Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:33:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: <pink@eclipse.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DP 1 on alphaserver 2100a install report Message-ID: <15541.51428.541308.526996@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <283a01c1e174$f29288b0$0500a8c0@Bester> References: <XFMail.20020411104727.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <283a01c1e174$f29288b0$0500a8c0@Bester>
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<moved from -current> Can you provide the output of "show conf" from the SRM console, please? FWIW, I suspect there may be some sort of problem with your graphics card (like its an usupported TGA card showing a new failure mode). I suggest you try to insall using a serial console (96008N1, disconnect keyboard and power-cycle box to redirct console to serial port). Cheers, Drew pink@eclipse.co.uk writes: > I have downloaded 5.0DP1-alpha > > I'm attempting to install on an DEC alphaServer 2100a > > During initial boot from the CD the machine appears to hang with screen > corruption. > > All the initialisation seems to be fine until just after the SCSI interface > check. > > I get the waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle. > Then a list of the disk interfaces. > da0 to da5 > (there are six discs) > > Then immediately after the last device check (da5) I get screen corruption. > The screen corruption is different each time and seems to have no familiar > pattern to it. > > So I removed all but one of the disks to see if it was the disk check itself > that was causing problems. > With only a single drive in place I get the same failure after da0. > > Looking at a recent Dmesg from my i386 box it would appear the next thing > after the disk interface check is mounting of the root partition. > > I would assume this root partition mount point is on the CD and it is > failing on this. Am I correct in this assumption? > > > If anyone wants more info on this then let me know what you require and I > will do my best to provide it. > > If anyone wants to give me any hints or tips as to what I can do next then > please do. I have a few things I'm going to try as soon as I get time but > would welcome any others as my BSD experience is in my opinion very limited. > > Pink. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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