So, last week I decided to blow away the ARC console on my LX164/533 and
try to get rid of RedHat 6.0/alpha and install either NetBSD-1.4/alpha or
Dunix 4.0E.  I made a disk with fwupdate.exe, lx164nt.rom and lx164srm.rom
on it and used this to switch to the SRM console.  I then upgraded the SRM
firmware to the latest revision.

To test this out I tried to boot RedHat 6.0, and while I could get MILO to
load and run, when it tried to load the kernel off of the disk it had all
kinds of problems and didn't get anywhere.  It didn't even get the kernel
unzipped.

So, I tried installing NetBSD 1.4.  This installed and would come up, but
then it would panic with a "machine check" error.  I tried installing
NetBSD 1.3.3 and the boot kernel could not configure the ethernet
interface to work (it was there, just that after configuring it packets
were not getting sent/recieved).   I tried using the 1.4 boot disks to
install NetBSD 1.3.3 and this worked, but then booting the NetBSD 1.3.3
kernel lost me the network again.

So, I moved to Dunix 4.0E and the install worked, but when I booted it it
came up with a message about "EB164.o" missing and the kernel froze.

So, I switched back to the LX164 ARC firmware and it is now running RedHat
6.0/alpha again.

Now, here's the dmesg dump from RedHat (sorry, it isn't NetBSD output) so
you can see what the hardware config is.  My first question is probably
the third line here -- do I actually have an EB164 and did I put the wrong
firmware on this board?  How can I tell from looking at the motherboard
what kind of machine this is (I inherited it, and there's no docs)?  And
if so, where do I get EB164 SRM firmware updates?

Linux version 2.2.5-22 (root@jetson.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Wed Jun 2 09:32:09 EDT 1999
Booting on EB164 variation LX164 using machine vector LX164
Command line: bootdevice=sda3 bootfile=boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 
HWRPB cycle frequency bogus.  Estimated 533190976 Hz
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 530.58 BogoMIPS
Memory: 516000k available
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Alpha PCI BIOS32 revision 0.04
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
SMC FDC37C93X Ultra I/O Controller found @ 0x370
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Starting kswapd v 1.5 
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
CMD646: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 58
CMD646: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x9000-0x9007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x9008-0x900f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hdb: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6102B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdb: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
   8regs     :   592.000 MB/sec
   32regs    :   968.000 MB/sec
using fastest function: 32regs (968.000 MB/sec)
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 9, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c875 detected with Symbios NVRAM
ncr53c875-0: rev=0x04, base=0x9801000, io_port=0x8800, irq=19
ncr53c875-0: Symbios format NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
ncr53c875-0: initial SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 = (hex) 05/46/a0/00/00/24
ncr53c875-0: final   SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 = (hex) 05/46/a0/00/08/24
ncr53c875-0: on-chip RAM at 0x9802000
ncr53c875-0: resetting, command processing suspended for 2 seconds
ncr53c875-0: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c875-0: enabling clock multiplier
ncr53c875-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
DC390: 0 adapters found
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 3.1h
scsi : 1 host.
ncr53c875-0: command processing resumed
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST19171W          Rev: 0024
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
ncr53c875-0-<1,*>: WIDE SCSI (16 bit) enabled.
ncr53c875-0-<1,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 15)
  Vendor: WDIGTL    Model: ENTERPRISE        Rev: 1.43
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
  Vendor: DEC       Model: DLT2000           Rev: 8B37
  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  Vendor: DEC       Model: DLT2000           Rev: 8832
  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 8
ncr53c875-0-<1,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 8
scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total.
ncr53c875-0-<0,*>: WIDE SCSI (16 bit) enabled.
ncr53c875-0-<0,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 15)
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17783112 [8683 MB] [8.7 GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8515173 [4157 MB] [4.2 GB]
Partition check:
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
 sdb: sdb1 sdb2
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4104
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed
Adding Swap: 525304k swap-space (priority -1)
Adding Swap: 525304k swap-space (priority -2)
st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 4, s/g segs 16.
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
Detected scsi tape st1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip at 0x8000, 00 00 e8 41 d3 fb, IRQ 16.
eth0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
eth0:  Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block.
eth0:  MII transceiver found at MDIO address 1, config 1000 status 782d.
eth0:  Advertising 01e1 on PHY 1, previously advertising 01e1.
eth0:  Advertising 01e1 on PHY 0 (1).
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII Xcvr #1 parter capability of 45e1.
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
ncr53c875-0-<5,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 15)
ncr53c875-0-<6,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 15)




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