FBSD 4.9 on AlphaServer 1000a/400

[Dan Williams]

Hi,

At the time, this didn't make a difference.  The probably magically
cleared up with 5.1.  I did post something on it to the FBSD mailing lists
sometime last spring, but nothing seemed to work.  I believe that it was
4.7 that _did_ work, and somehow 4.8 broke it, but 5.1 was fine
again.  Anyway, its water under the bridge.

Dan

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Wilko Bulte wrote:

> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:35:04AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> When using isp(4) always load ispfw as well (advise received from MAtt
> Jacob, the isp(4) author).
> 
> 
> 
> > 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org
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