From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue May 9 16:53:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F76B37BB1B; Tue, 9 May 2000 16:53:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA09610; Tue, 9 May 2000 17:53:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 17:53:43 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Mike Smith Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Jacob , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: borked Alpha boot loader? Message-ID: <20000509175343.A9592@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20000509095916.B28677@dragon.nuxi.com> <200005091853.LAA19927@mass.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200005091853.LAA19927@mass.cdrom.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:53:43AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:53:43 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:12:27PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > setting affinity to the primary CPU > > > jumping to bootstrap code > > > Loading /boot/loader > > > Console: SRM firmware console > > > panic: zfree(0x2003cb58,4096): wild pointer > > > > > > halted CPU 0 > > > > > > halt code = 5 > > > HALT instruction executed > > > > I get the same. (well thought it was code 2) > > Mike Smith and I have talked about it and couldn't immediately think of > > which commit could have broken the loader. > > > > At the loader 10 sec count down, do: > > Er, when we talked about it, I thought I told you it happened as soon as > the loader was loaded. There's no time to do anything, it just explodes. I stupidly updated an Alpha box, and now I'm getting the same problem. Does anyone have any ideas for recovering it, other than trying to netboot it off another box? (I don't have any other Alpha boxes I could put the disk into, and DEC Unix on that machine doesn't seem to want to boot for some reason.) I actually saved the working loader as /boot/loader.works, but using the -file option to SRM's boot command doesn't seem to work. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message