New AC2 release candidate - 5305

[Jay Estabrook]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:36:15PM -0400, Gary Richardson wrote:
>  >Unfortunately, not the same results on my 5305
>  >> failed while loading the initrd.
>  >>
>  >> Halt Code = 7
>  >> PC = 196e4
> 
> 
> Halt code 7 == machine check while in PALcode environment
> 
> That's an ugly one.
> 
> What kernels can that box run? AC-1.0? CentOS-4.2? RH-7.2?
> 
>   --Jay++
> 
> Has been running modified RH 7.2 for a long time.
> Most recently 2.4.23 kernel. Did compile 2.6 there
> were too many changes so I gave up on that.
>
> Thought it was time to switch so I installed Core-1
> It is doing fairly well however there is a scsi error
> showing occasionally and there is no X.

OK, so you've been running AC-1.0 kernel (2.6.11-1.1180axp_FC3).

Do you have a log with the SCSI errors shown?

And have you tried X using a different VGA, ie not the builtin Trio64?

Unfortunately, that one (Trio64) is problematic on Alpha.

 --Jay++

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