Alpha Core ISO Images

Richard Irving rirving at antient.org
Tue Sep 28 20:18:58 UTC 2004


FYI: ENTIRE CARMEN TREE, ONLINE AS WELL...

  Slight change to venue.

   ftp://fedora-axp.antient.org/pub/ISO

   ftp://fedora-axp.antient.org/pub/carmen



Jay Estabrook wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:51:53AM +1000, Mike Barnes wrote:
> 
>>Compares very well with the development system, then. I've got a
>>Radeon 7000 in mine. Runs quite nicely. Tuxracer looks good. :)
> 
> You'd be amazed at how much better a 7500 is; and a 9100 is even better!
> Biggest problem is finding the PCI versions... :-\

   Tell me about it, I am looking for a USB card that fits
in a PCI type bus in the 1200's. Hints appreciated.

>>I've had a terrible time with using IDE disks on the Miata, but this
>>is nothing new. SCSI works perfectly. We've also have an LX164 board
>>up and running.
> 
> I've none with IDE disks installed at the moment, but IDE CDROM does
> just fine...
> 
>>We really need to confirm if the SMP kernel actually works. If
>>anyone's got an SMP Alpha system, I'd appreciate a report.
> 
> SMP does NOT work, at least on my DS20 (UP kernel is fine).
> Below is a partial log of the boot messages, picking up just before
> the first obvious error message. Seems to be module-related...


   Choke and Puke.

    Actually, does look like initrd is hosed.

   * sigh *

   If the (&%^%&%(^(^(^ Kernel builds, It will be enough I can
get a start....



>>>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>>>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
>>>Red Hat nash vermodule scsi_mod: Relocation overflow vs section 22
>>>sion 3.5.22 starsd_mod: Unknown symbol scsi_device_get
>>>ting
>>>Mounted /psd_mod: Unknown symbol scsi_wait_req
>>>roc filesystem
>>>sd_mod: Unknown symbol scsicam_bios_param
>>>Mounting sysfs
>>>sd_mod: Unknown symbol scsi_block_when_processing_errors
>>>Loading scsi_modsd_mod: Unknown symbol scsi_register_driver
>>>.ko module
>>>insmsd_mod: Unknown symbol scsi_ioctl
>>>...
>>
>>I'll pop the current SRPM up sometime in the next few hours. The one
>>sitting in the Carmen tree at
>>ftp://ftp.maths.monash.edu.au/pub/carmen/ should be almost identical,
>>though. Check the configs bundled in that. Tweaks to the kernel config
>>would be great to get back. It's a pretty basic setup modelled mostly
>>on the current x86 defaults right now.
> 
> 
> OK, the kernel will make LEGACY_START_ADDRESS known in its messages if
> it is configured, and this one does, so the current install kernel
> will NOT work on DS15/DS25/ES45/MARVEL.
> 
> But it SHOULD work on MILO machines... :-) :-)
> 
>  --Jay++
> 
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