From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 16 14:37:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB53437B4C5 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:37:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12057; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:37:48 -0800 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:37:45 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: John Polstra Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2-RC1 failure on 164LX In-Reply-To: <200011162236.eAGMaHo49538@vashon.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org There have been enough other reports of failures to believe that it's not just unreported-by-SRM media errors that are occurring. > In article , > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John Polstra wrote: > > > > > I don't know whether this is useful info or not, but the -stable > > > from Oct. 31 which is installed on my hard drive boots fine using > > > -current's loader. "Huh?" OK, I have a dual boot setup with -current > > > on da0a and -stable on da0f. So when I boot, -current's loader always > > > gets control. Then I can make it boot -stable like this: > > > > > > unload > > > set currdev=disk0f > > > boot /kernel > > > > > > That works reliably. > > > > Hmm. > > I'm starting to think my whole failure report should be viewed with > doubt. I have just now successfully used the RC1 floppy 3 times in > a row, each time after a powered-off period of a minute or more. > > The diskette media is a bit suspect. After writing the kern.flp image > initially, I checked it with "dd < /dev/rfd0 | cmp - kern.flp" and got > a read error. (This was not on the Alpha machine.) I reformatted the > diskette and it seemed OK after that. But it may be a bit flaky. I > understand that the SRM is supposed to complain about media errors, > but I'd believe it more if I had ever seen it happen with my own two > eyes. (Sorry, that's why I'm a programmer.) > > John > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message