Re: NetBSD 10.0_RC1 on AlphaServer DS25... no boot

John Klos <[email protected]> Sat, 30 Dec 2023 20:58:20 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha
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>>  (John ? sorry, I somehow missed your original mail on the subject?)

No worries! You've fixed everything else so well that it has been running 
for ages with no problems :)

>>  12GB installed RAM, is that right?  I will see if I can reproduce with
>>  Qemu.
>
>  Yes, I'm sorry to say.  I'll be back over there later today and will try to 
> get more information.  Last night we were running it with a serial terminal 
> (VT220!) so capturing the backtrace wasn't practical.

Funny how easily we can take a phone and record a multi-megabyte HD video 
of boot text scrolling by, just to capture a few KB of text...

>  The ES40 has four processors and 8GB of RAM.

Show-off! OTOH, powering a dual processor system is challenging enough.

Any chance you'd want to run a pkgsrc pbulk build on that system? ;)

John