Re: Addendum: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 for Alpha/AXP Available

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:04:27 +0000
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:08:33PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 08:05:18PM +0000, Kris Kennaway wrote..
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:37:04PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:31:11PM +0100, Phil Brennan wrote..
> > > > On an alphaserver 200 4/66, it locks solid on "entering kernel". Will
> > > > be trying on an alphaserver 800 shortly.
> > > 
> > > :-(
> > > 
> > > Are you sure your console setting is correct, what does SHOW CONSOLE at
> > > the >>> prompt tell you?
> > 
> > Note, this is the same problem I have on alpha.  I haven't tested it
> > for a few weeks though because of moving.
> 
> Well, I had a similar experience this morning when I freshly installed
> BETA3 on my DS10.  But now it is happily trucking along with BETA3.
> What I did differently:  I installed on a SCSI disk and not on the ATA
> drive.  But I don't think this is something to be called conclusive.

These machines are all netbooting (they only mount local disk as
scratch, later on in the boot process).

Kris
Received on Wed Sep 08 2004 - 19:04:27 UTC

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