Re: alpha multia boot problems

[Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Henning Brauer wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:34:28AM -0700, Diana Eichert wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Igor Grabin wrote:
> > > de0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 vendor 0x1011 product 0x0002 rev 0x23: isa irq 15
> > > de0: DEC 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 address 08:00:2b:e2:ca:82
> > have you tried disabling de at startup, this should allow the dc driver to
> > load.
> 
> dc(4) doesn't support the 21041.
> 
> The multias are troublesome. Netboot is totally broken, for example, though
> I can boot from floppy without trouble on mine. Eh, make that "I could" -
> currently this thingie has no RAM :-((
> (if anyone has PS/2 RAM with parity...)

Yeah, I wasn't sure about dc on the Multia's.  I thought someone with more
de/dc experience would chime in.