6.0-beta4 on 2100A: unexpected machine check

[Tillman Hodgson]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:20:21PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> Howdy folks,
> 
> I recently acquired a nice 4-CPU 512MB 2100A "Lynx" machine. This is my
> first FreeBSD install on Alpha (though I've run it on i386 and sparc64
> for years). I ran into rouble while trying to boot the install kernel.
> THis might be related to the thread I found at
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-alpha/2005-August/002659.html
> ... at least, the symptoms seem similar to my uneducated-in-Alpha eye.

There appears to be a PR for this issue:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=61973

Unfortunately, it hasn't been touched in a year.


-T


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