Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:21:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shutdown and alpha Message-ID: <200210021421.g92ELBjj072764@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20021002213909.A1546@grosbein.pp.ru>
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Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:22:40AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > On a PC, a "halt" just spins the processor waiting for input because > > there is no intellegent console firmware to return to. It would be really cool if it could go back to loader(8). > > Therefore, it > > makes sense let the user know that the system has halted.. On an > > alpha, the SRM console makes it quite obvious what has happened: > > syncing disks... 3 > > done > > Uptime: 15m58s > > > > halted CPU 0 > > > > halt code = 5 > > HALT instruction executed > > PC = fffffc000059fb48 > > >>> > > It says 'boot failed' before >>> for my Alpha. > What does it mean? FWIW, on my alpha (AXPpci33) it hangs at that point. When I need to go to the SRM console, I have to power the machine off and on. (Not a big deal for me, since the box usually runs unattended for long periods of time, and I rarely need to access the SRM.) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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