More Alpha hardware than AlphaLinux question, sorry
I have a AS 1000A 4/266 (Noritake) with 128M memory running Debian unstable
just fine, but as I don't have it doing anything right now I wanted to install
Tru64 5.1 to play around with it but the kernel on the install CD, a CDR direct
copy of an original from Compaq, doesn't even boot. It starts loading the
kernel and booting it but panics with something like "Machine Check : Hardware
Error". If it really is hardware I'd like to see if I can figure out what's
wrong and possibly fix/replace it, but the thing I don't get is Linux runs just
fine without error. I even ran memtest from sysutils for a day and it never
burped. While I'm on the subject is there a way to test all of hte memory,
Linux will only let memtest mlock 50% of the available memory, so it could be
missing the bad chip if there is one.
I also just noticed an error on the SRM console when I shutdown Linux, it said:
System Machine Check through vector 660
Machine Check Code: 0x205
Idsel not asserted
If the IPRs: info after that is important I can send that too, but it's a lot
to type right now =)
I am running SRM V5.6-106 because it supports my DAC960 since the newer ones
don't see it, but since it happened with the newer SRM too I don't think that's
the problem.
Any ideas?
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