Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 09:35:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Dan Williams <dan@bigw.org> To: M Gollihue <mike@sassie.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 4.9 on AlphaServer 1000a/400 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.21.0405190933080.23019-100000@polonius.bigw.org> In-Reply-To: <005c01c43d21$d6c3ae60$6a0aa8c0@sassie.net>
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Hi, I'm quite able to run FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on my AS 1000a 5/400, of course I don't have a Mylex card but only the onboard SCSI and an Adaptec 2940U. I have not tried 5.2 yet, but some of the later 4.x series builds had serious issues with the onboard ISP SCSI driver that caused the machine to forever loop during discovery of the adapter. Anyway, give 5.1-RELEASE a try and see if that works for you, to at least pin down the versions that have problems. Dan On Tue, 18 May 2004, M Gollihue wrote: > Hello, all! > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on an AlphaServer 1000a/400/256Mb. It > gets through the initial configuration just fine, however, upon getting to > the place where it attempts to download from FTP...it downloads the first 10 > blocks of the distribution then stops. The error message on VTY2 says > "Attempt to write beyond the end of the drive." > > I have a Mylex 960 card with two 9Gb drives attached, partitioned 6Gb > data/1Gb swap/1Gb temp. Anyone else experience this problem? The system > works fine under Red Hat. > > I tried to load FBSD 5.2.1, but I get a machine bugcheck and it halts the > system. But that is for another day. > > Thanks, > Michael Gollihue > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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