PWS 600au with Alpha Core

[Phillip G Deneault]

I've attempted to get Alpha Core .9 installed on my PWS, however after 
choosing my boot option from aboot I get the following text and then the 
install simply stops.  I've let it sit like that for hours and it never 
gets past the PCI stage.

I even tried ripping out all my pci devices and using 'pci=off' at boot 
time to disable pci, and it still freezes.

Any ideas?  Anyone seen this before?

Thanks
Phil

aboot: loading compressed /kernels/vmlinux.gz...
aboot: zero-filling 335640 bytes at 0xfffffc000079baa8
aboot: loading initrd (4667345 bytes/4557 blocks) at 0xfffffc00239fa000
aboot: starting kernel /kernels/vmlinux.gz with arguments  console=ttyS0
Linux version 2.6.6-1.435icbinu4 (root at genuine-article.receptacle.org) 
(gcc vers
ion 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Tue Sep 14 02:24:11 EST 2004
Booting GENERIC on Miata using machine vector Miata from SRM
Major Options: LEGACY_START DEBUG_SPINLOCK MAGIC_SYSRQ
Command line:  console=ttyS0
memcluster 0, usage 1, start        0, end      236
memcluster 1, usage 0, start      236, end    73727
memcluster 2, usage 1, start    73727, end    73728
freeing pages 236:384
freeing pages 1017:73727
reserving pages 1017:1019
Initial ramdisk at: 0xfffffc00239fa000 (4667345 bytes)
2048K Bcache detected; load hit latency 35 cycles, load miss latency 145 
cycles
pci: cia revision 1 (pyxis)
On node 0 totalpages: 73727
   DMA zone: 73727 pages, LIFO batch:8
   Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
   HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line:  console=ttyS0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 65536 bytes)
HWRPB cycle frequency bogus.  Estimated 599816443 Hz
Using epoch = 2000
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 573568k/589816k available (3116k kernel code, 14000k reserved, 
653k data
, 328k init)
Calibrating delay loop... 1187.96 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Initializing.
SELinux:  Starting in permissive mode
There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed.
selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an 
initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 4557k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
pci: passed tb register update test
pci: passed sg loopback i/o read test
pci: passed pte write cache snoop test
pci: failed valid tag invalid pte reload test (mcheck; workaround available)
pci: passed pci machine check test
pci: tbia workaround enabled
pci: enabling save/restore of SRM state
PCI: Bus 1, bridge: 0000:00:14.0
   IO window: 8000-8fff
   MEM window: 09c00000-09cfffff
   PREFETCH window: 09000000-09bfffff

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute    The resst is the madness of art."
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