From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Sep 11 22: 4: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E6337B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:03:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.redlinenetworks.com (mail.redlinenetworks.com [216.136.145.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E66443E42 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:03:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sewall@ix.netcom.com) Received: from ix.netcom.com (melkor.redlinenetworks.com [192.168.0.8]) by mail.redlinenetworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g8C53tK85125; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sewall@ix.netcom.com) Message-ID: <3D802267.4050403@ix.netcom.com> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:13:11 -0700 From: Scott Sewall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need help installing References: <3D7AA43D.9010309@ix.netcom.com> <15739.43458.696708.200577@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Drew, Thanks for you help. I swapped the cable to the other serial port and was able to boot the CD and complete the install. Do you know if there is there a CVS tag for the 5.0DP1 snapshot? Hopefully I can use this box to learn more about FreeBSD and make a contibution at the same time. -- Scott Andrew Gallatin wrote: >Scott Sewall writes: > > I'm attempting to install from a CD, made from the ISO I downloaded > > from freebsd.org. The install hangs after jumping to the bootstrap code: > > > > P00>>>boot dqb0 > > (boot dqb0.0.1.16.0 -flags 0) > > block 0 of dqb0.0.1.16.0 is a valid boot block > > reading 375 blocks from dqb0.0.1.16.0 > > bootstrap code read in > > base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 2ee00 > > initializing HWRPB at 2000 > > initializing page table at 3ff4c000 > > initializing machine state > > setting affinity to the primary CPU > > jumping to bootstrap code > > << at this point the light on the CD blinks for several seconds >> > >Check your console variable. Make sure that its not set to "graphics" >(I assume that you're running a serial console) > >Also make sure your serial console cable is connected to the lowest >numbered serial port. Try putting the cable on the other port -- the >SRM console echos enough output to ALL ports to confuse you into >thinking that you may be using the correct port when in fact you are >not. FreeBSD will just use the lowest numbered port. > > > Processors > > CPU 0 Alpha 21264B-4 833 MHz SROM Revision: V2.5.2.2.32 > > Bcache size: 4 MB > > > > CPU 1 Alpha 21264B-4 833 MHz SROM Revision: V2.5.2.2.32 > > Bcache size: 4 MB > >Nice machine. In order to get the second CPU working, I'm afraid >you'll need to run -current. I'd start with the 5.0DP1 snapshot. > >Cheers, > >Drew > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message