Subject: Re: GENERIC on AlphaServer 4100
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/14/1999 17:53:22
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> I remember at some point that Matt Jacob claimed that GENERIC didn't
> run on the AlphaServer 4100.  This appears to no longer be the case
> (I just booted GENERIC on one).
> 
> What was the deal with that, anyhow?

The problem I saw was that it didn't reboot. :-) Initial booting would go
fine, but a reboot would get spastic when it tried to re-enter the boot
monitor - or at least that's how it looked to me.

Take care,

Bill