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List:       freebsd-alpha
Subject:    Re: AlphaServer 2100 500MP-5
From:       Wilko Bulte <wb () freebie ! xs4all ! nl>
Date:       2005-05-31 17:09:37
Message-ID: 20050531170937.GD45316 () freebie ! xs4all ! nl
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On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 01:05:49PM -0400, Jason Slagle wrote..
> 
> I have one of these giant rackmount beasts.  I had an earlier 5.x running 
> on it, but it won't seem to boot a 5.4 install CD.  It reads it, starts to 
> boot (Screen goes black, and for a fleeting moment I see kernel stuff). 
> Then I get:

Can you set it to serial console and capture those messages?

Something like 

>>> SET CONSOLE SERIAL 

and a 9600N81 terminal emulator should do the trick.

> halted CPU 0
> halt code = 7
> machine check while in PAL mode
> PC = 14060
> 
> I have no idea how to check the kernel console to see the panic, if it did 
> indeed panic, as it has VGA on it.

You might want to go and check the mailing list archives on the AS2100.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org
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