Alpha PWS 433au (MiataGL) halts when booting installation CD, with "halt code = 5"

[matti k]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:49:56 -0600
Tim McIntosh <tmcintos at avalon.net> wrote:

> On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Rob Dosogne wrote:
> > Tim McIntosh wrote:
> >> I'm guessing the issue described in the following post may be the  
> >> cause of the problem?  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd- 
> >> alpha/2005-April/002294.html
> >> The thing is, the QLogic SCSI controller is built-in on this  
> >> system, so there's no way to put it in front of the PCI-PCI  
> >> bridge.  Is there any way to disable it, or disable the device  
> >> driver, as a work-around?
> >
> > I think you can disable the isp driver at the loader:
> >
> > set hint.isp.0.disable="1"
> >
> > although I have not tried this on my own machine yet.  After  
> > installing
> > you could recompile the kernel without isp or leave the disable  
> > line in
> > your device.hints
> 
> Well, that appears to have disabled the driver, but the problem  
> persists.  Maybe the driver is not the cause, after all?
> 
> Note that I now have a Mach64 graphics card installed in a 64-bit  
> slot.  I don't think that's having any effect on this problem, but  
> I'll try it again without the graphics card when I get a chance.

I have the same hardware except using SCSI hard drive and Matrox
Millenium video card, had the same problem as you have described. I've
just gotten a 6.2-R CD and did some testing. I get the same errors when
the video card is plugged into either of the two 64-bit slots. Works
fine in the 32-bit slots. 

I also have 128MB of memory (want more!) but I don't think this is an
issue in regards to the halt errors.

Lastly, I have a problem with web pages being rendered incorrectly
when scrolling but think this may be a faulty video card as it was
marked defective (i'm guessing for a reason).

Cheers,
Matti