FBSD 4.9 on AlphaServer 1000a/400

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:35:04AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm quite able to run FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on my AS 1000a 5/400, of course
> I don't have a Mylex card but only the onboard SCSI and an Adaptec
> 2940U.  I have not tried 5.2 yet, but some of the later 4.x series builds
> had serious issues with the onboard ISP SCSI driver that caused the
> machine to forever loop during discovery of the adapter.

When using isp(4) always load ispfw as well (advise received from MAtt
Jacob, the isp(4) author).



> Anyway, give 5.1-RELEASE a try and see if that works for you, to at least
> pin down the versions that have problems.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Tue, 18 May 2004, M Gollihue wrote:
> 
> > Hello, all!
> > 
> > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on an AlphaServer 1000a/400/256Mb. It
> > gets through the initial configuration just fine, however, upon getting to
> > the place where it attempts to download from FTP...it downloads the first 10
> > blocks of the distribution then stops. The error message on VTY2 says
> > "Attempt to write beyond the end of the drive."
> > 
> > I have a Mylex 960 card with two 9Gb drives attached, partitioned 6Gb
> > data/1Gb swap/1Gb temp. Anyone else experience this problem? The system
> > works fine under Red Hat.
> > 
> > I tried to load FBSD 5.2.1, but I get a machine bugcheck and it halts the
> > system. But that is for another day.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Michael Gollihue
> > 
> > 
> > 
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