Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 20:31:18 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Steve Sizemore <steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't make -current world or kernel on 21264 Message-ID: <14367.36489.891040.341959@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991102152703.C93980@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> References: <19991102152703.C93980@cmpharm.ucsf.edu>
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Steve Sizemore writes: > *** Signal 4 <illegal instruction> > > I even tried (unsuccessfully) to install a recent snapshot to get > back on track. I tried booting the kern floppy from the 19990915 > snapshot, which dropped back to SRM before ever requesting the > mfsroot floppy. I also tried the 19991031 version, which got further > along, but hangs on the screen where it is probing for devices. > > I'd be happy to provide any more info, if you have any ideas, but > I'm starting to wonder if there may be a hardware problem. I know > that other people are running -current on this and similar machines. > This is very strange. I did a number of buildworlds on my xp1000s during October. I've never seen anything like these problems. What sort of devices do you have in the box? Anything really weird? How much RAM? I'm thinking perhaps it could be either memory or cache errors, but you should be seeing an incorrectable machine check if things get that bad. Have you seen any mention of correctable machine checks? Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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