DEC 500a

[Wilko Bulte]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:09:17AM +0000, Russell Howe wrote..
> 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

Do you mean ispfw.ko?

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Russell Howe       | Why be just another cog in the machine,
> rhowe at siksai.co.uk | when you can be the spanner in the works?
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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org