From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Bootstrapping Alpha
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:23:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010919192335.1DF8219A53@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
On Tue Sep 18 23:25:44 EDT 2001, packer@bway.net wrote:
> I'm trying to boot an Alpha PWS 500a. (The hardware seems close enough
> to the Alphapc that it should work with the Plan9 kernel).
>
> Everything runs smooth until I get to the "root is from (il)[il]:"
> prompt.
> At this point the keyboard freezes and the system hangs.
>
> Has anyone seen this behavior? I'm not sure if this is a hardware
> problem
> or a problem with cpu server configuration. Would the system freeze like
> this if there is a problem with il?
No, the system would not freeze like that if it were an IL problem.
David Hogan recently got the alpha kernel to work on a newer motherboard,
perhaps if you can give the motherboard model number and the peripheral
configuration we can check with the current code.
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2001-09-19 3:30 John Packer
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