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 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxx `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913