Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:37:04 -0500 From: Michael DeLisle <mikedotd@nexthop.net> To: Rob B <robbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 on a Cabriolet? Message-ID: <91B3C456-7BBA-11D8-BD21-003065A6F8A0@nexthop.net> In-Reply-To: <405BC69F.4050908@ozemail.com.au> References: <87y8pwiobj.fsf@strauser.com> <405BC69F.4050908@ozemail.com.au>
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On Mar 19, 2004, at 11:20 PM, Rob B wrote:
> Kirk Strauser wrote:
>> I'm using a PC64 (from dmesg: "Digital AlphaPC 64 274 MHz, 274MHz")
>> with
>> three fxp cards as a firewall/router. The machine is currently
>> running
>> 4.9-STABLE, but I imagine that I'll be needing to upgrade to 5.x at
>> some
>> time soon when that becomes the stable branch.
>> Right now, I'm using 5-CURRENT on a few x86 servers with great
>> success, but
>> I don't want to attempt to upgrade my router until I feel fairly
>> confident
>> that I can do it without too much downtime or emergency restoral from
>> backups. So, does anyone have an opinion on whether 5.2.1 would
>> probably be
>> stable enough to upgrade at this time, or would I be better off
>> waiting
>> until 5-STABLE comes along?
>> On the one hand, I don't want to upgrade prematurely. On the other
>> hand, I
>> don't want to wait until the 4-STABLE brance is completely dead so
>> that I
>> have no real fallback position if I encounter some weird hardware
>> incompatibility.
>
> Kirk,
>
> I was never able to get anything higher that 5.1-RELEASE booting on
> this box
>
> I wrote:
>
> <snip>
> jumping to bootstrap code
> loading /boot/loader
> |
> halted CPU 0
>
> halt code = 2
> kernel stack not valid halt
> PC = 7000000f0000
> boot failure
>
> There doesn't appear to be a /boot/loader.old that I can load either.
>
> I'm in the process of trying John Baldwins floppies - see recent
> posings on that
>
> cheers,
> Rob
FWIW, I'm currently running 5.2.1 on a Cabriolet:
(from dmesg)
FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1: Fri Feb 27 04:16:45 EST 2004
root@alpha-trion.nexthop.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ALPHA-TRION
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xfffffc0000770000.
EB64+
Digital AlphaPC 64 274 MHz, 274MHz
I was able to install 5.2-release (via cdrom) and cvsup to
5.2.1-release successfully.
I had some problems running 5.2 as a bridging firewall, the box would
randomly reboot on me from time to time. I never troubleshot the
issue, and haven't tried the bridging firewall again with 5.2.1.
5.2.1 however has been stable enough to run my squid proxy, bind9, and
various scripts.
--mike.d
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