Re: Re: PWS 433au (Miata) recovery update

2019-01-30 Thread Alex Winbow
forgotten about snapshot.debian.org. That worked, the older samba 4.7.3 is installable on alpha (and my fileserver is up!) On Sun, 27 Jan 2019, Bob Tracy wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 12:25:52PM -0800, Alex Winbow wrote: My understanding is that it's not initramfs-tools that mounts all the (non-roo

Re: Re: PWS 433au (Miata) recovery update

2019-01-27 Thread Alex Winbow
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019, Michael Cree wrote: samba build-depends on ceph [1] but ceph hasn't built on Alpha for some time [2]. Looks like dtp-relative relocation errors during linking in the build of ceph [3] is the reason. I have a theory that gcc is not taking the spec file listed in its invoc

Re: Re: PWS 433au (Miata) recovery update

2019-01-27 Thread Alex Winbow
Bob,     I'm seeing this also, after installing using the Debian 8.0 installer and dist-upgrade'ing to unstable (using the SMP kernel trick to get past the GENERIC issue). My understanding is that it's not initramfs-tools that mounts all the (non-root) local filesystems, but systemd (which it

Re: can't boot kernel 4.x on SX164

2016-03-01 Thread Alex Winbow
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Michael Cree wrote: Success with kernel 4.4.2, built entirely using the Debian package configuration options with only two changes: machinetype set from generic to SX164, and CONFIG_ALPHA_SRM=y. Obviously I'm thinking that CONFIG_ALPHA_SRM may be highly signi

Re: can't boot kernel 4.x on SX164

2016-02-25 Thread Alex Winbow
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Bob Tracy wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:27:42PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:23:44PM -0500, Alex Winbow wrote: On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, Helge Deller wrote: On 20.02.2016 08:41, Michael Cree wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 12:09:49AM -0500, Alex

Re: can't boot kernel 4.x on SX164

2016-02-23 Thread Alex Winbow
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, Helge Deller wrote: On 20.02.2016 08:41, Michael Cree wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 12:09:49AM -0500, Alex Winbow wrote: I'm unable to boot kernel 4.2 or 4.4 on SX164. aboot loads the kernel and the initrd successfully, then returns to the SRM prompt -- no

can't boot kernel 4.x on SX164

2016-02-19 Thread Alex Winbow
Hi, I'm unable to boot kernel 4.2 or 4.4 on SX164. aboot loads the kernel and the initrd successfully, then returns to the SRM prompt -- no error messages. (I'm using kernel 3.16 at present.) Are there any known issues with Linux 4.x over 3.x on alpha, or on SX164/EB164 in particular?

my machine is going nuts

2001-08-31 Thread Alex Winbow
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"bug in dynamic linker"

2001-08-30 Thread Alex Winbow
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/debian/e2fsprogs-1.22/debian/BUILD-STD' /usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage: line 2: 5577 Illegal instruction "$@" Build command 'cd e2fsprogs-1.22 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. E: Child process failed

Status of sym53c1010

2001-07-11 Thread Alex Winbow
(Tsunami) booting via SRM. Even if the kernel supports it, will there be any problems with SRM if I remove the QLogic UW card and want to boot using the symbios? Thanks, Al

Booting question

2001-01-27 Thread Alex Winbow
SRM, and what would I gain? Thanks, Alex Winbow -- Alex WinbowHouston/Austin UT [EMAIL PROTECTED]E http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~a