Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 02:11:29 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2-BETA issues Message-ID: <20031207011129.GZ42518@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20031207114545.024cb5e0@127.0.0.1> References: <6.0.1.1.2.20031207114545.024cb5e0@127.0.0.1>
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On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:54:10AM +1100, Rob B wrote: > I'd like to try 5.2-BETA on my PC64, it was running 5.1-RELEASE, but when I > cvsupped to -CURRENT and followed the build world, buildkernel, > installkernel, reboot steps in /usr/src/UPDATING, I now get a kernel stack > fault: > > <loader loads> > FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision > (root@aylee.number6, Sun Nov 30 04:07:30 EST 2003) > Memory 131072 k > \ > halted CPU 0 > > halt code = 2 > kernel stack not valid halt > PC = 18110 > boot failure Switch to a /boot/loader.old for recovery. You have to press space at the right time - IIRC directly after the first SRM booting message loaded from disk - to give an alternate name. > So I thought I would boot from the 5.1-RELEASE floppies (thuis machine > doesn't have a SCSI CDROM), but they do not appear to have a valid boot > block. I tried several different disks, just in case. > > Can I make the floppy bootable with some tool, or is it a problem with the > build? > > Will there be floppies built for 5.2-BETA (or 5.2-RELEASE for that matter)? There will be no more floppies because of size issues. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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