Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 09:40:50 +0100 From: Santanu Das <santanu@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> To: Jean-Francois Gobin <gobin@gobinjf.be> Cc: "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on AlphaServer 1000A 4/266 Message-ID: <40A5D792.2010809@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040515073213.O42901@ns> References: <Pine.NEB.4.21.0405141716170.22860-100000@polonius.bigw.org> <40A568A6.7030100@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> <20040515073213.O42901@ns>
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Hi all,
Many thanks for all of yours reply.
Every time I try to boot FreeBSD from installation CD, it seems to start
fine, with lines like:
FreeBSD/Alpga SRM CD9660 boot, Revision 1.2
(root@mithlond.btc.adaptec.com, Mon Feb 23 19:12:15 GMT 2004)
Memory 229376 k
Loading /boot/defeaults/loader.conf
/boot/kernel/kernel data=0x50a3c0+0x41b00 sysms[0x8+0x67350+0x51223.........
-
then it displays:
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt,
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]....
/
and then ends up with:
Unexpected machine check:
mces = 0x1
vector = 0x660
param = 0xfffffc0000006000
pc = 0xfffffc0000697084
ra = 0xfffffc00003b4c98
curproc = 0xfffffc00008123e0
pid = 0, comm = swapper
panic: machine check
cpuid: 0;
Uptime: 1s
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
then going back to 'booting from the CD' stage. It's happening again again.
Surprisingly, when I try to install Digital Unix, it's not complaining -
just installing smoothly.
Any idea what' might be the problems?
Santanu
PS. Jean - thanks for your offer, you seem to be a true Alpha lover. It
has found a good home just a few days
ago - that's mine - and I wanna take care of her as long as I can. I'll
let you know by sure if I change my mind in future.
Jean-Francois Gobin wrote:
>I think it would be best to try booting the installer before doing
>anything else that may damage your DG UX install.
>
>In SRM, when you're sure you may boot safely, you can rip off any boot
>options (file, flag, autodevice and so on), just to be on the safe side.
>
>
>PS : if you want to get rid of your AS, don't hesitate to contact me! I
>can make a little room for her! ;-)
>
>JF
>
>
>On Sat, 15 May 2004, Santanu Das wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>At present Digital Unix is running on the system, I just want to remove
>>that want to install fresh copy of FreeBSD. Do I need to format the disk
>>before start FreeBSD installation? Is there any option from SRM console
>>to do that?
>>
>>Santanu
>>
>>Dan Williams wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I'm running 5.1-RELEASE on an AS 1000A 5/400, but again that's an EV5 and
>>>not an EV4 like the 4/266 would have... I would assume it works though.
>>>
>>>Dan
>>>
>>>On Fri, 14 May 2004, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:11:10PM +0100, Santanu Das wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Not 5.2.1 because we do not have that model at work anymore, but previously
>>>>4.x ran fine on these machines. I had EV5 CPUs in ours though.
>>>>
>>>>Have you read the Alpha version of HARDWARE.TXT? That has more info
>>>>on the various Alpha models.
>>>>
>>>>Wilko
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>This is the first time I'm trying FreBSD and even more, the very first
>>>>>on a AlphaServer. I downloaded four iso images namely,
>>>>>5.2.1-RELEASE-alpha-bootonly.iso, 5.2.1-RELEASE-alpha-disc1.iso,
>>>>>5.2.1-RELEASE-alpha-disc2.iso and 5.2.1-RELEASE-alpha-miniinst.iso from
>>>>>mirror side. Do I need to burn all these images?
>>>>>
>>>>>Did any ever body install FreeBSD on that particular machine (AS 1000A
>>>>>4/266) or know about any known constraint?
>>>>>Any related information would be much more appreciate!!!
>>>>>
>>>>>Santanu
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>---end of quoted text---
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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>>>
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>>>
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>
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