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FIVAZ Fabien wrote: [Fri Jan 09 2004, 06:50:22AM EST] |
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> I'm a long time user of x86 Gentoo. Yesterday, I managed to access a |
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> Digital PWS 433au. So I decided to install Gentoo for Alpha on it, |
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> from stage 1. After about 8 hours of compiling, the system works well. |
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> I had some troubles with SRM because it auto-booted Digital UNIX. I |
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> had to disconnect SCSI disk to gain access to the SRM console (I |
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> didn't find any help about how to desactivate auto-boot). |
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There are numerous possibilities in this situation: |
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1. Hold down ctrl-c while the system is coming up. That will cancel the |
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boot. |
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2. Power up the machine with the halt button pressed in. That will |
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cancel boot. |
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2. From DU, run "consvar -s auto_action halt" to change the console |
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variable. You might need to "consvar -a" to save the change, I'm not |
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sure. |
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3. From DU, run "halt" (or press the halt button on the machine) to |
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return to the console, then do "set auto_action halt" |
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You get the idea... ;-) |
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> But after |
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> that, I could boot from the Live CD and install everything. The Tulip |
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> network interface driver didn't worked, so I used de4x5, which, after |
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> waiting a few minutes, worked. I had a kernel panic on IDE CD |
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> detection, so I had to disconnect the CD-ROM (I don't use it, so it |
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> does not matter). But does someone has some informations about which |
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> driver to use ? I'm now rebuilding the kernel with CMD640 support, |
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> hope this will fix the problem. |
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I don't know, I only use SCSI. |
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> After that, I'll build xfree. My problem is that the box still has |
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> it's original TGA2 graphic card which is not supported by xfree. Can I |
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> change the graphic board with *ANY* pci card ? Or do I have to search |
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> for a Alpha-specific card ? |
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You can use any board, I think, though I haven't tried in Miata. I'm |
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surprised that TGA2 isn't supported by xfree. Are you sure? I |
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personally use Elsa GLoria aka Comet aka 3Dlabs GLINT Permedia 3, on 3 |
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heads, and it works well (so long as you don't use Xinerama, though I |
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haven't checked recent versions). I also have some machines that use |
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Permedia 2 with multiple heads. |
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Aron |
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Aron Griffis |
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Gentoo Linux Developer (alpha / ia64 / ruby / vim) |
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