Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:02:45 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, "Brent J. Nordquist" <bjn@visi.com>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Alpha make buildworld stops at groff Message-ID: <9098.903870165@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:53:44 EDT." <13789.49021.995565.325186@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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> How far do you get, exactly? Do you have an Intel or Cypress SIO? > (show config from the SRM console prompt will tell you). Good question! ``show config'' just shows "Device: 2, Name: COM1, Type: Embedded, Enabled: Yes, BaseAddr: 3f8, IRQ: 4, DMA: None" [simimar entry for COM2, with the expected addr/IRQ diffs]. Not very instructive on the topic of chipsets and such. :( > One handy tip is to be absolutely certain to configure the root disk > to match what you're actually using. It tends to blow up rather > spectacularly when it cannot mount root / run init. It never gets far enough for that to be a problem. :) > Make sure to have 'options DDB' defined, then boot with the -d flag. > That should drop you into ddb almost immediately after the kernel > begins execution. OK, I've gotten this far now - I'll work on compiling up a gdb on the x86 which understands alpha (Doug sent me a configure line earlier) and start running serial cables. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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