Resolution for Loading UNIX 5.1 on an old Alpha Station 200 4/10 0

["Centifonti, Mark" <mark.centifonti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Again Managers:
I just wanted to thank you for the responses I received for the below issue
on 8/1 and am happy to say that I discovered that the graphics card was the
cause of the problem, so I removed it and was able to load the new firmware
and the Unix 5.1 operating system. Thanks in particular to Jim Lola, Dan
Price, and all others that responded. Its nice to have such a great resource
to fall back on if needed. Once again everyone, Thanks.

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Mark Centifonti
Systems Administrator
NJ. Dept. of Agriculture
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Hello Managers:
Something tells me the answer to this question is a resounding NO, but here
goes....

I had the above old Alpha Station laying around and wanted to test some
proxy server software and was trying to install Unix 5.1 with no luck. 
Can this be done on this Alpha Station? Am I missing something and/or making
an error in the installation procedure?

I did the following procedure with the software starting to load (CD was
being read), then installation hangs at  "jumping to bootstrap code" and
nothing else happens. The same result happens (below) when I try to install
firmware or the operating system.

>>>set boot_osflags ""
>>>init
>>>boot dka400 

(boot dka400.4.0.6.0)
block 0 of dka400.4.0.6.0 is a valid boot block
reading 14 blocks from dka400.4.0.6.0
bootstrap code read in
base = 1f6000, image_start =0, image_bytes = 1c00
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 1e8000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code



Below is the config of the hardware:

>>>sho config

Firmware
SRM Console:  V4.2-3
ARC Console:  4.28
PALcode:      VMS PALcode X5.48-100, OSF PALcode X1.35-67
Serial Rom:   V4.6
Diag Rom:     V1.6

Processor
DECchip (tm) 21064-2  100Mhz 512KB Cache

MEMORY
     160 Meg of System Memory
     Bank 0 = 32 Mbytes(16MB per Simm) Starting at 0x8000000
     Bank 1 = 64 Mbytes(32MB per Simm) Starting at 0x0
     Bank 2 = 64 Mbytes(32MB per Simm) Starting at 0x4000000
     Flash Rom0  Mfr - Intel
     Flash Rom1  Mfr - Intel
     Flash Rom2  Mfr - AMD
     Flash Rom3  Mfr - AMD

PCI Bus
     Bus 00 Slot 06: NCR  810 Scsi Controller
                               pka0.7.0.6.0    Scsi Bus ID 7
                               dka0.0.0.6.0    RZ28
                               dka100.1.0.6.0  RZ26L
                               dka400.4.0.6.0  RRD43

     Bus 00 Slot 07: Intel SIO 82378

     Bus 00 Slot 11: DECchip 2140 Network Controller
                                 ewa0.0.011.0   08-00-2B-E%-BC-04

     Bus 00 Slot 13: Vendor: 1002 Device: 4358
ISA
Slot   Device   Name       Type        Enabled   BaseAddr   IRQ    DMA
0
       0        Mouse      Embedded    Yes       60         12
       1        KBD	   Embedded    Yes       60         1
       2        COM1       Embedded    Yes       3f8        4
       3        COM2       Embedded    Yes       2f8        3
       4        LPT1       Embedded    Yes       3bc        7
       5        FLOPPY     Embedded    Yes       3f0        6      2
       
2
       0        PCXBJ      Singleport  Yes       530        9      0



Thanks in advance for your assistance.
                          

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