Re: kernel 2.1.129 on Alpha Miata

["Designer 7" <designer_7 hotmail com>]

Hey... I'm running RH5.2 with 2.0.35 and I'm having some similar 
problems too... see below...

>Greetings,
>
>	Has anyone gotten the 2.1.129 kernel to run successfully on the Alpha
>PWS Miata?  I tried to use it and there are some real problems:
>
>	1) takes forever to mount local partitions

I've had this problem since day one when I installed RH5.2... at first I 
thought it might be a problem with my SCSI... but now that I'm not the 
only one.... hmmm... anyways.. yes, it takes about 2 to 3 minutes just 
to mount my root partition.... on a similar Intel system, it takes less 
than 10 seconds.....

>	2) blows up portmapper when attempting to mount nfs partitions

I don't use NFS so I can't say about this one....

>	3) does something bad so that after I ctrl-alt-del and go back to milo
>and run a good kernel, the keyboard is disabled and the cd-rom flakes.

Yup, I've also had this problem since day one.... if I reboot from 
MILO... my system hangs during boot... if I cold boot it (reset 
switch)... I'm fine.... My system is total SCSI... 

>
>	These behaviors seem odd since the kernel is supposed to be reasonably
>stable...
>
>	I'm using RH 5.1 and just want to run Digital Unix shared libraries.

Some of the problems just didn't bother me enough for me to worry about 
it.... (but it would be nice if they were fixed) I originally thought it 
was a problem with MILO.... but I don't know.... if anyone else knows 
about these problems please speak up!... especially if you have a fix. 
By the way, my system is an Alpha 21164 500Mhz PWS 500a.

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