Alpha/EISA broken?

Wilko Bulte wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Thu Jul 31 07:03:05 PDT 2003


On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 02:03:12PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> Wilko Bulte writes:
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:40:28PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> > > Wilko Bulte writes:
> > > > > Sounds like an SRM problem or EISA configuration problem.
> > > > > Normaly the bus and then system board should be probed at this point.
> > > > > We never used EISA on alpha before - EISA bridge support was only
> > > > > conditionalisized on pci.
> > > > 
> > > > Which triggers me: did you run the ECU?
> > > > 
> > > > A copy is at:
> > > > 
> > > > ftp://ftp.tcja.nl/pub/wilko/alpha
> > > 
> > > I have this now. It looks like something I dd(1) onto a floppy?
> > 
> > yessir
> 
> :-)
> 
> And then do what with? Boot off it? run it from the bios?

>>> runecu 

from SRM. Better have a VGA card installed. Serial console is 
possible to but is a bit (hum..) of a challenge.

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