Guest OS Notes

Status for various guest OSes under ES40

DEC/Compaq/HP OS-es

OpenVMS

Test 8.3

• Using newide, all devices are recognized and use DMA mode, including CDs.
• There is a permissions violation during install. Do not abort it, and the install will work anyway. (note Camiel: differing results of installation reported. A lot seems to depend on timing).

Tru64 Unix

Tested using 5.1B

• Using the newide device:
  • Devices are probed correctly.
  • DMA is supported.
  • installs and configures.
  • es40 system too hot? remove your dpr.rom and restart!
• Using the ali_ide device
  • devices timeout on probe.

Free OS'es

FreeBSD

Tested with 6.2

• Using newide
  • devices are probed and DMA is used.
  • CD-ROM device works, but occasionally times out.

NetBSD

Tested 3.1.1

• Panics if cirrus device is present.
• Using newide
  • all devices are recognized and use DMA mode.
  • CD-ROM devices are supported and work for install and normal use
• Using ali_ide
  • all devices are recognized and pio mode is used.
  • CD-ROM devices are not supported

Tested 4.0

• Panics if cirrus device is present.
• Using newide
  • recognizes all devices and uses DMA
  • CD-ROM cannot be used due to apparent cdrom corruption.
• Using ali_ide
  • Unknown at this time.

OpenBSD

Tested 4.2

• Crashes immediately upon boot.

Linux

Tested using Debian 4.0 rc 0, centos 4.2, gentoo 2007.0. Always boot with "boot <device> -flags 1" when using a serial console.

• Gentoo + ali_ide: hang after hda size display
• Gentoo + newide: hang after hda size display
• Centos: hangs after serial probe.
• Debian: hangs after serial probe.

SRM

Ok, its not really an OS, but it acts like one.

• Can boot CDROMs with newide device (with cdrom=true)
• Cannot boot CDROMs with ali_ide device (segfault)

When booting CDROM-type media with the ali_ide device, set the disk is cdrom=false.