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To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: loader broken
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I think the loader was fine as of May 3. This is a recent change.

On Sat, 26 May 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote:

> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:37:19PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> Ouch... thank you, I just read this 30 secs before I planned to installworld
> my PWS600au 
> 
> Wilko
> 
> > Looks like the loader is hosed:
> > 
> > Loading /boot/loader
> > Console: SRM firmware console
> > VMS PAL rev: 0x1000000010114
> > OSF PAL rev: 0x1000000020116
> > Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded.
> > 
> > FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision 1.1
> > (jhb@baz.osd.bsdi.com, Fri May 25 16:22:52 PDT 2001)
> > Memory: 262144 k
> > \
> > halted CPU 0
> > 
> > halt code = 2
> > kernel stack not valid halt
> > PC = 200000000
> > boot failure
> > >>> e ra
> > gpr:               1A (   R26) FFFFFC00005A21B4
> > 
> > Hmm.  Crap would be a good term here I think.  loader.old doesn't work either. 
> > It seems to die while loading the kernel.  I wonder if my kernel is too big and
> > is now triggering a bug in the loader?  This is a major PITA now. :(
> > 
> > For loader.old the RA is 0x0000000020025F18
> > 
> > Hmm, I seem to be rather screwed now until I can take this drive out and move
> > it to another system I suppose. :(
> 
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