On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 10:31:04PM -0700, Andrew Tubbiolo wrote:
>
> Hi Folks:
>
> I'm new to this mailing list, and new to Dec Alpha hardware. I
> looked for this problem on the archive, and did not find it. So I feel
> okay bothering you about it. I have an AXPPCI33 Motherboard with a 133MHz
> Alpha Chip. It has 32 MB of Compaq Parity Ram, no cache, an ISA SVGA video
> card, a floppy, and currently no hard drive. The BIOS splash screen looks
> like this.
>
> Bios emulation v1.07
> Copyright 1993-1994 Digital Equipment Corp
> All Rights Reserved
> Patent Pending
>
> My bios chip is a 27c512-2 (No flash) with a Dec 89 label. ( I have a
> EPROM burner ).
>
> Here's the problem, after the BIOS splash, I get a blue screen
> with a flashing white '_' curser, and nothing more. I fear I have the
> wrong ram, but the docs say any parity ram will do. Am I wrong
> here? Anybody else see this problem, let alone have a solution?
You've got the SRM console installed. You may boot with the command
boot dka2
for example from "dk" == scsi device, "a" == first scsi channel, "2" ==
scsi ID 2 or
boot dva0
which is the first floppy. I use linux on such a board and this is quite
fine;) I've got 256KB of cache and that speeds up the machine with factor
1.5 .. 2! Currently I'm searching for 11x128K (-> 1MB of Cache), but that
seems to be very expensive, because these chips seem to be no longer
produced.
Hint: With the standard linux kernel, never ever place some hardware which
requires an IRQ in the bottom PCI slot: irq13 is mapped there and thus
it is ignored. (A graphic card is fine there;) If you want to remap IRQs,
you have to do very little changes.
I'm currently running Debian Potato (very nice;) and using this machine
as a file server...
MfG, JBG
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