I'll try serial console today or tomorrow... I have only one
processor. But where did you get -current snapshots? I read your mail
in tech-smp, you booted 1.6A... Is there any binary of 1.6A kernel
for NetBSD/alpha?

From: Murray Armfield <murray.armfield@arconsulting.com.au>
Subject: Re: Support for alphaserver 2100?
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 12:00:39 +1000

> Hi,
> 	I got it going on -current as of yesterday. Boots, goes multiuser and seems 
> OK but I haven't pushed it hard. However, if I run more than one processor it 
> panics constantly. I just mailed tech-smp on this if your interested.
> 
> 	Initially I was being stupid and trying to boot from graphics console. I 
> switched to serial console as per FreeBSD doco and it booted fine. Have you 
> tried this?
> 
> BTW, there seems to be a lot more doco on this machine at FreeBSD than NetBSD. 
> How about a link or something?
> 
> Take care,
> 	Murray
> 
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:37, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > You have exactly same problem with me. I have AS2100 4/200. Until now,
> > there is no reasonable solution for this symptom.
> >
> > Most important reason that I try NetBSD/alpha is support of my EISA
> > Mylex RAID. I have only disks connected to EISA Mylex, and NetBSD
> > supports it. If you have bootable disks in other devices(NCR, etc.),
> > try FreeBSD/alpha. I succeed to boot and see sysinstall, but I can't
> > go further because FreeBSD/alpha doesn't supports EISA Mylex driver.
> >
> > From: Murray Armfield <murray.armfield@arconsulting.com.au>
> > Subject: Support for alphaserver 2100?
> > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 23:09:57 +1000
> >
> > > Hi Folks,
> > > 	I've been searching through the NetBSD mail archives and found some
> > > references to some work done on getting the alphaserver 2100 going from a
> > > while back. The box is a 4/275 and I've tried the 20020512-1.5ZC snapshot
> > > in the arch/alpha area on the ftp server and the boot floppies in the
> > > jensen-sable-lynx area in arch/alpha, but it doesn't get any further than
> > > loading floppies and saying...
> > > 	Entering NetBSD at 0xblahblahblah....
> > > 	[ netbsd ELF symbol table not valid ]
> > > 	[ no symbol table formats found ]
> > > and then just sits there, humming away.
> > >
> > > 	Am I missing something here in the way I boot the box?
> > > 	Is there any interest in supporting this machine? If so I'd be happy to
> > > try things out for anyone.
> > >
> > > Please CC me as I haven't signed up for the post-alpha mailing list.
> > >
> > > Take care,
> > > Murray Armfield
> 
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