ac1-qboot.iso testing (Was: Re: AC 0.9 boot problem)

[Peter M. Groen]

Hi Jay,

You can add the DS20E (Tsunami based machine) to the list with "Ok"

Regards,

Peter Groen
Leiden, the Netherlands


On Tuesday 05 April 2005 21:44, Jay Estabrook wrote:
> Thanks to Sergey and Cristian, the ISO image "ac1-qboot.iso" was made
> available for anon FTP at ftp.rdsor.ro:
>
>     /pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/1.0a/test
>
> Its purpose is to allow testing of the installation boot scripts
> and check on kernel support for the various Alpha platforms.
>
> !!! IT IS NOT A COMPLETE DISTRO YET !!!
>
> It is ONLY for testing, so don't download it with any other intention...
>
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:37:52PM +0400, Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
> > I will put Alpha Server 4100 to my list of machines that
> > could have possibility to install AC 1.0.
>
> Here are a few other results of using that "ac1-qboot.iso" image for
> testing bootability of various Alphas to which I have access. I simply
> booted into "rescue text" mode and poked around a bit (doing an "ls -R"
> of a previous install, looking at /proc/cpuinfo).
>
> Platform Result
> -------- ------
>
> DP264  OK
> DS10  OK
> XP1000  OK
>
> AS400  BAD??
>
> AS500  OK
> AS600  OK
> AS600A  OK
> AS800  OK
> AS1200  OK
> AS4100  OK
>
> PC164  OK
> LX164  OK
> MIATA  OK
>
> AS2100  BAD??
>
> AS1000A  BAD kernel messages stop after "Serial: 8250/16550..."
> XLT (MILO) BAD kernel messages stop after "Serial: 8250/16550..."
>
>
> Notes:
> ------
>
> 1. The current install kernel will NOT boot on the TITAN-based machines
>    (DS15/DS25/ES45), nor on WILDFIRE or MARVEL, because it is still
>    consfigured for LEGACY_START_ADDRESS.
>
> 2. A number of platforms with CDROM located off an NCR 810 had some
>    sort of trouble, either unable to find a CDROM device (indicating the
>    driver failed to probe correctly), or some sort of generic hang
>    (as on the AS2100 and AS400). This may be a problem with the driver,
>    which appears to always be "sym53c8xx"; in previous distros, there
>    was an "ncr53c8xx" which appeared to be the one preferred (by the
>    distro) for the "lower" NCR adapters (810/815/875?).
>
> 3. The problem encountered on XLT and AS1000A appears generic, ie it
>    occurs with "vanilla" 2.6.11 as well... :-(
>
>  --Jay++
>
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