Addendum: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 for Alpha/AXP Available

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:08:33PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 08:05:18PM +0000, Kris Kennaway wrote..
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:37:04PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:31:11PM +0100, Phil Brennan wrote..
> > > > On an alphaserver 200 4/66, it locks solid on "entering kernel". Will
> > > > be trying on an alphaserver 800 shortly.
> > > 
> > > :-(
> > > 
> > > Are you sure your console setting is correct, what does SHOW CONSOLE at
> > > the >>> prompt tell you?
> > 
> > Note, this is the same problem I have on alpha.  I haven't tested it
> > for a few weeks though because of moving.
> 
> Well, I had a similar experience this morning when I freshly installed
> BETA3 on my DS10.  But now it is happily trucking along with BETA3.
> What I did differently:  I installed on a SCSI disk and not on the ATA
> drive.  But I don't think this is something to be called conclusive.

These machines are all netbooting (they only mount local disk as
scratch, later on in the boot process).

Kris