Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:49:38 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2-RC1 failure on 164LX Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011161045100.9657-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001116103648.jdp@polstra.com>
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Yuck. I actually don't have any PC164s with a floppy to try. Based on what I've seen so far with both -current and 4.2, I believe that our boot loader is not interacting well with SRM- and this will take a while to fix. Can you try the non-floppy method? -matt > I tried the RC1 boot floppies on this machine: > > EB164 > Digital AlphaPC 164LX 533 MHz, 531MHz > 8192 byte page size, 1 processor. > CPU: EV56 (21164A) major=7 minor=2 extensions=0x1<BWX> > OSF PAL rev: 0x1000200020117 > real memory = 132046848 (128952K bytes) > avail memory = 123183104 (120296K bytes) > > but it wouldn't boot from them. It loaded /boot/loader OK and got > this far (copying by hand from the screen): > > FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision 1.0 > (root@rawhide.osd.bsdi.com, Thu Nov 9 07:30:33 GMT 2000) > Memory: 131072 k > - > halted CPU 0 > > halt code = 2 > kernel stack not valid halt > PC = 200000000 > >>> > > Actually the behavior varies. Another time it did this: > > Loading /boot/loader > Can't open file /boot/loader > > halted CPU 0 > > halt code = 5 > HALT instruction executed > PC = 20000038 > >>> > > I think it is a failure to initialize something. If I first boot > up -current from my hard drive and then try booting from the floppy > without powering down the machine, the floppy works fine and gets me > to the installation menu. But when I try to boot a freshly powered > machine from the floppy, it fails. (I haven't tried this very many > times, but that seems to be the pattern.) > > I would urge everybody who has tested RC1 to try it again on a > freshly powered-up machine! > > John > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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