DEC 500a

[Russell Howe]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:18:02AM +0100, Ulrich wrote:
> Hi Pete (and to all kind readers/helpers) 
> 
> have you been able to solve your problem of booting Release 5.4 on your 
> Alpha 500a? 
> 
> I'm asking because I encountered probably the same problem on more or less 
> the same type of machine (Miata). 
> 
> I'm booting with floppy, in fact with the 5 floppies I've prepared.
> It goes smoothly until it is booting the kernel.
> It eventually reports 
> 
> ...
> pci0: <display, VGA> at device 11.0 (no driver attached)
> pci0: <display> at device 12.0 (no driver attached) 
> 
> halted CPU 0 

Apparently there's some firmware module you need to load for the SCSI
chipset. I haven't got details handy, but I think that should get 5.4
booted. 6.0 still isn't booting for me, but that's something else and I
haven't had chance to try different versions etc yet.

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