On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Martin Reindl wrote: > > i ultimately wanted to try martin reindl's alpha patch on my pws500au > > (even if i wouldn't have scored extra anyway), when i realized my > > alpha was hosed, so i grabbed the sept 10 snapshot, installed it fine, > > cvs'd src/, compiled a generic kernel, and upon reboot: > > I just don't recall what patch this might have could been,
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:47:13 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Alpha testers needed ^- this one (didn't get to the part of even thinking about trying to, tho). > but you disabled ISA. The clock attaches to ISA. Don't disable ISA. you mean as in `editing arch/alpha/conf/GENERIC'? no i didn't. swear to god. not even with config(8). or anything that can do this and i'm aware of. i went like: netboot bsd.rd as per install.alpha, install it, cvs co src, cd /usr/src/sys/alpha/conf, config GENERIC, cd ../compile/GENERIC, make clean depend bsd, mv bsd /bsd && chmod 0644 /bsd && chown root:wheel /bsd && reboot. this is exactly what resulted in no clocks. and i didn't disable it in srm either (if that is possible at all, which i do not know, but would nevertheless be quite surprised). according to config, ukc> find isa 111 isa* at pceb*|sio* flags 0x0 ukc> i have followed -current with this box up until maybe one and a half weeks ago semi-regularly, never had any problems, except for the phenomenon which matthieu described as `the alpha bug' and is known, but never anything like that. now i'm getting confused... -- [-] mkdir /nonexistent
