Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:28:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.EDU> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha/17642: FreeBSD/alpha 4.0 RELEASE installation fails with cant find init Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003290923350.25230-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200003291710.JAA03977@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Dirk, uh, was this the board I borrowed from you? It certainly did work for me when I did the isp_mem_map=0xff and it saw disks and I booted what was very close to the FreeBSD-4.0 kernel. No- I didn't boot the INSTALL kernel- it wasn't readily available to me at the time. I have the same basic system. Dirk- I'll clone you a disk to get you going if you like- I'm really not quite sure what the problem here is. (I also offered you On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Dirk Kleinhesselink wrote: > The following reply was made to PR alpha/17642; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.EDU> > To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> > Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: alpha/17642: FreeBSD/alpha 4.0 RELEASE installation fails with cant find init > Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:01:09 -0800 (PST) > > On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I can't reproduce this on any of our alpha machines; can you tell me a > > bit more about the configuration? > > > Sure -- I actually realized after I hit the send button that my hardware > configuration wasn't specified: > > AlphaPC164 366MHz, 128MB RAM, SRM v. 5.5 (I think -- I upgraded several > months ago with the firmware CD included with Tru64 5.0). The system has > 2 IDE disks on ata0, the master has NT, the slave has Redhat 6.1 -- these > disks are seen by SRM, ata1 has a CD-ROM drive, not seen by SRM. I put an > ELSA Gloria Synergy video card in the system. It has a SCSI/Ethernet PCI > combo card that was originally in an AlphaStation 600 5/266. The combo > card has 2 Qlogic ISP 1020 UW SCSI channels and a DEC 21040-AA 10MB > ethernet. The card has a 21050 bridge (?) chip on it. On SCSI channel A > I have an IBM 18GB UW disk and on SCSI channel B I have a Toshiba SCSI > CD-ROM. This card works with Linux, Tru64 and OpenVMS (I haven't tried > NetBSD or switched to ARC and tried NT). > > If I try to boot FreeBSD either from CD-ROM or floppies, it will give me a > machine check panic when it queries the SCSI controllers. I had posted > this to the FreeBSD/alpha group when trying to run with the release > candidate and I ended up loaning the card to Matthew Jacob. He told me he > got it to work with his AlphaPC164 system and that I needed to either > interrupt the boot after the kernel and mfsroot load and give the boot > loader: set isp_mem_map=0xff or else build a custom kernel with: > SCSI_ISP_PREFER_MEM_MAP=1 > > I obviously can't build a kernel if I can't install. If I interrupt the > boot and give the boot loader the set isp_mem_map=0xff, it will get past > the PCI device probe when it hits the SCSI controllers and it looks like > it correctly identifies the system hardware but come to think of it, I > never recall it reporting the devices on the SCSI channels -- it gets to > the "waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle" and then the screen > flashes to the red installation background and it immediately gives me the > going nowhere can't find my init message and reboots. > > But I guess the installation is supposed to find a memory filesystem and > so it shouldn't matter initially whether or not there are devices on the > SCSI channels. It sounds to me like it can't find the memory filesystem. > It certainly reports the ethernet, both scsi channels, both ide channels, > the 2 ide disks and the ide cdrom. I also think I tried to boot from > floppies with the 4.0 CD in the IDE cdrom drive and still got the panic > and reboot. > > Dirk > > > > > > 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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