From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 17 5:40:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AEDD14A1B for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 05:40:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA18076; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 08:40:42 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA21992; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 08:40:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 08:40:11 -0500 (EST) To: "Juan E. Navarro" Cc: Steve Sizemore , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't make -current world or kernel on 21264 In-Reply-To: <38321394.91E3E8A7@cs.rice.edu> References: <19991102152703.C93980@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> <14367.36489.891040.341959@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <382072E6.F1860BD4@cs.rice.edu> <14368.47749.129492.944260@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <38321394.91E3E8A7@cs.rice.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14386.44695.295211.502782@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Juan E. Navarro writes: > Hi, Andrew. My XP1000 went nonfunctional, but now that it's up after a > surgery I tried again. I reinstalled using the 19991111 floppies. The > instalation went fine, but I still cannot boot. > > >>>boot dka0 > (boot dka0.0.0.6.1 -flags a) > block 0 of dka0.0.0.6.1 is a valid boot block > reading 15 blocks from dka0.0.0.6.1 > bootstrap code read in > base = 19e000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1e00 > initializing HWRPB at 2000 > initializing page table at 1fff0000 > initializing machine state > setting affinity to the primary CPU > jumping to bootstrap code > Loadig /boot/loader > I/O request to dka0.0.0.6.1 is invalid (check type, offset, and size) > Can't open file /boot/loader > > halted CPU 0 > > halt code = 5 > HALT instruction executed > PC = 20000038 > boot failure > >>> You did install to dka0, right? And you do not have a DOS fdisk label on the disk, right? Eg, you need to use the entire disk. Not a slice. Do you didn't use a slice, right? If yes to both, then it appears the installation installed a broken loader. Since the loader has always worked for me since its inception, my first guess would be that the installation installed an i386 world. Try booting from the floppy. Do NOT load the mfsroot, just hit return. Then let the kernel boot. It should look for your root device & mount it. If this works, try mounting the kern.flp floppy & copy the floppy's boot/loader to /boot/loader. I have NEVER installed FreeBSD/alpha via a floppy / sysinstall method (and havn't installed i386 like that in 2+ years). So if anybody has done this recently & can help this guy, PLEASE chime in. 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