The default kernel (2.2.14-6.0) is extremely unstable on LX164. It does start up and work for a while yet at some random time afterwards (which may range up to a couple days) it crashes the machine. Here's a console "snapshot": ---------------------------------------- halted CPU 0 halt code = 7 machine check while in PAL mode PC = 18400 boot failure >>> ---------------------------------------- This has been tested quite thoroughly and we experienced it on a number of machines. The last test was to boot the version above on one machine and version 2.2.16pre4 BUILT FOR LX164 on two others and the former one crashed indeed. This may be either a kernel bug or a conflict between LX164 and a "generic" kernel. The hardware configuration is as follows: - LX164 board - Symbios 53c875 SCSI - Seagate SCSI hard disk - no video card - serial console on ttyS0 - Digital DS21140 Tulip network card (tulip driver used)
Is this still a problem if you try the current rawhide version of the kernel? ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/redhat/linux/rawhide/alpha/RedHat/RPMS/ (*2.4.3-7*) I don't have an lx164 but I do have an sx164 (kinda similar) running the latest SRM ( http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/ ) reliably. Phil =--=
Can't tell - we are off the Alphas now...