Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:40:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Josh Tolbert <hemi@scoundrelz.net> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Machine Check when booting dqa0? Message-ID: <20021018153853.U59632-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> In-Reply-To: <20021018134257.A43173@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Hi again, In "show device" at the SRM prompt, only my CD-ROM (DQA0) and floppy drive (DVA0) show up. Is there something I need to do to enable the primary IDE channel, or does the machine just not like those particular (WD) hard drives? Is there something I need to do after the FreeBSD install that I'm missing? Thanks, Josh On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:50:28AM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote: > > > dva0 is the floppy. > > > Oh, yeah...Something else. It's actuall dva0 that I use to try to boot > > from the hard drive. Does that sound fishy? > > > > Thanks, > > Josh > > > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Josh Tolbert wrote: > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > I tried booting from IDE immediately after the power-on, but got > > > the same result every time I tried. > > > The exact machine error is a "660 Machine Check," which from my > > > searching indicates a memory error. Can anyone verify this, and if so is > > > there any way to determine if the problem is board-related or > > > memory-related without swapping the RAM around? I don't have too many EDO > > > ECC SIMMs laying around. > > > Also, is there any place (besides ebay) to find something like a > > > UP1000 Alpha motherboard for a reasonable price? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Josh > > > > > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Have you tried power-cycling the box before attempting to boot? > > > > > > > > On some machines (my up1000 for example), IDE works great the first > > > > time after a cold boot, and then fails upon reboot. (I just get the > > > > timeout messages, not a machine check). FWIW, I think we're not > > > > putting something back the way SRM likes it. > > > > > > > > Drew > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > ---end of quoted text--- > > -- > | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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