Hi Ulrich!

On 9/23/21 21:57, Ulrich Teichert wrote:

and putting the four SIMMs into bank 0 only, I was able to boot my ancient
kernel with 128 MB of ram. So far so good, but I failed to boot the
5.15-rc2 kernel over aboot or from the CDROM, with exactly the same
behavior as before (uncompressing.... forever or machine check with HALT).

Out of curiosity, have you tried a recent Debian ISO for Alpha?

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/

Adrian

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