From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 26 18:27:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86DB437B403 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:27:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA01228; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:27:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f9R1Qvw87268; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:26:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15322.3425.700773.484721@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:26:57 -0400 (EDT) To: "Shashi Dookhee" Cc: Subject: Re: Kernel Panic on DEC Alpha 1000A 5/400 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Shashi Dookhee writes: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > Wondering if anyone has come across the following error message > during boot - it happens *every* time, so the system never boots - > This is happening while booting from CD-ROM to install FreeBSD > 4.4-INSTALL/Alpha (system currently has OpenVMS on the hard disks > which seems to boot okay): > > unexpected machine check: > > mces = 0x1 > vector = 0x660 > param = 0xfffffc0000006060 > pc = 0xfffffc0000554584 > ra = 0xfffffc000052d870 > curproc = 0xfffffc0000909a98 > pid = 0, comm = swapper > > panic: machine check > Uptime: 0s > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort > > This happens after it checks all the devices (last thing it does > before that panic is "de0: enabling 10baseT port"). > > I thought it might be a memory issue with perhaps faulty modules, but > since the OpenVMS system boots to a login prompt, I have pretty much > discounted that (someone correct me if I am wrong about dismissing > it!).. > > Any help would be appreciated! Can you hook up a serial console & give a complete transcript of the boot session, please? Cheers, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message