Subject: Re: your mail
To: Magnus Ahltorp <Magnus.Ahltorp@abc.se>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/28/1997 13:53:07
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997 22:49:33 +0200 (MET DST)
Magnus Ahltorp <Magnus.Ahltorp@abc.se> wrote:
> Oh, sorry. I'm trying to boot Netbsd-1.2 kernel with mdec-ecoff-970305
> boot loader on a UDB version BL5 V3.7-628 Apr 25 1995 15:14:12
Ok...
You should probably not be trying to boot 1.2. NetBSD/alpha has come a
LONG ways since then. You probably want to be loading the latest
NetBSD/alpha snapshot, which includes, among other things, support
for shared libraries, has fixed many bugs, etc.
The snapshot will contain new, up-to-date boot programs, in ./usr/mdec.
You probably also want to update that firmware... old UDB firmware is
fairly buggy. (Well, of course, _new_ UDB firmware is buggy, but in
different ways :-)
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