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Debian on ES40

2007-11-22
2013-04-03
  • Dobrica Pavlinusic

    I wanted to boot my old OSF/1 backups on ES40. While I wasn't able to boot Digital Unix 4.0d iso image in ES40, I got a little bit further with latest Debian netboot image:

    P00>>>boot dqa0
    (boot dqa0.0.0.15.0 -flags 0)
    block 0 of dqa0.0.0.15.0 is a valid boot block
    reading 158 blocks from dqa0.0.0.15.0
    bootstrap code read in
    base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 13c00(80896)
    initializing HWRPB at 2000
    initializing page table at 1ff56000
    initializing machine state
    setting affinity to the primary CPU
    jumping to bootstrap code
    aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 1.0_pre20040408
    aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.92          
    aboot: booting from device 'IDE 0 15 0 0 0 0 0'
    aboot: no disklabel found.                    
    iso: Max size:94222   Log zone size:2048
    iso: First datazone:36   Root inode number 73728
    aboot: loading uncompressed boot/vmlinuz...    
    aboot: loading compressed boot/vmlinuz... 
    aboot: zero-filling 844938 bytes at 0xfffffc00015fc44e
    aboot: loading initrd (4876625 bytes/4762 blocks) at 0xfffffc001f9ae000
    aboot: starting kernel boot/vmlinuz with arguments ramdisk_size=14920  root=/dev/ram devfs=mount,dall

    I don't know if I waited enough for this to continue, but my CoreDuo got so hot that I just aborted it.

    Real question is: is there any interest in booting OSes other than VMS on ES40, and if there is can we have a maling list for that please?

     
    • Camiel Vanderhoeven

      Hello Dobrica,

      There definitely is some interest for runing other OS'es; we're making some progress with Linux (AlphaCore 3), FreeBSD and NetBSD. I don't have OSF/1, Digital UNIX or Tru64; but I know people are interested in that as well.

      I'll take a look at the mailing list structure.

      Camiel.

       
    • syadnom

      syadnom - 2008-09-15

      Definitely interested in the Tru64 support!

      Just in case everyone wasnt accutely aware of the price on the emulators based of the charon/axp product, emulating an es40 with 2 1ghz CPUs and 4GB of RAM is about $75,000!!!!  You can but an es40 or es45 with that config for !$7000 from great lakes!

      Thanks for all the hard work.  I'm very excited about this project!

       

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