Re: the Alpha lives...

last update .. Theo has built a new snapshot which I installed on the alpha. It works well, and after booting into it the nsd configure run works just fine. So, thanks to Theo for the latest snap :) Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd [ using 1135448 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] consinit: not

Re: the Alpha lives...

I know you're all on the edge of your seat for the next episode in this saga .. so here goes. `make build` failed during the night (after 431 minutes build time) while running configure for nsd. Here's the failing test: checking size of off_t... pid 87911 (conftest): unaligned access:

Re: the Alpha lives...

Building a -current kernel took over an hour (I forgot to time it), but it worked! I'm now going to build a release, but that's going to take several hours, if the kernel build time is any indication... So here's the 6.3 dmesg (with some extra SCSI devices thrown into the mix, for fun): [ using

Re: the Alpha lives...

Hi Paul, On 2018-03-18 15:55:34 +0100 Paul de Weerd wrote: I recently started to resurrect my old Alpha (Digital PWS 600au). It was spewing a garbled mess on serial console, so I had to find a PCI video card to install in it first. Then a PS/2 keyboard. Then it turned

the Alpha lives...

Hi all, I recently started to resurrect my old Alpha (Digital PWS 600au). It was spewing a garbled mess on serial console, so I had to find a PCI video card to install in it first. Then a PS/2 keyboard. Then it turned out to have reverted to the PWS 600a (AlphaBIOS, supposed to run Windows