How to install freebsd6 on alpha server ?

Wilko Bulte wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Mon May 22 08:22:12 UTC 2006


On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:41:18AM +0300, Halid Faith wrote..
> Hello
> 
> I could not install Freebsd6 to a compaq alpha server. 
> in fact I had installed freebsd4.4 before the same machine.
> But this time I got an error as below at the beginning ;
> 
> fatal kernel trap
> memory management fault.
> 
> after above error message, the server goes reboot.
> 
> Does anyone has any advice ?

Yes, please at least tell us what model Alpha this is.

Unfortunately we have seen a lot of Alpha hardware support
go down in quality (politely speaking) which means
that Alpha models that used to work sometimes no longer work 
in FreeBSD 5 or 6.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org


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