Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:06:46 -0500 From: Rob Dosogne <admin@truthsolo.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha PWS 433au (MiataGL) halts when booting installation CD, with "halt code = 5" Message-ID: <45AE57A6.1040104@truthsolo.net> In-Reply-To: <88F3FB25-A363-4E91-A637-213116F58356@avalon.net> References: <88F3FB25-A363-4E91-A637-213116F58356@avalon.net>
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Tim, I think you can disable the isp driver at the loader: set hint.isp.0.disable="1" although I have not tried this on my own machine yet. After installing you could recompile the kernel without isp or leave the disable line in your device.hints Tim McIntosh wrote: > Hi, > > This problem has been reported by others numerous times over the last > couple years; this is just a reminder that it still exists in 6.2R. It > would be great if somebody could address the issue. > > This system has no PCI cards installed and no SCSI devices installed. > The HDD is on IDE0 and the CDROM is on IDE1. > > I'm guessing the issue described in the following post may be the cause > of the problem? > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-alpha/2005-April/002294.html > > The thing is, the QLogic SCSI controller is built-in on this system, so > there's no way to put it in front of the PCI-PCI bridge. Is there any > way to disable it, or disable the device driver, as a work-around? > > Thanks! > Tim > > > (...) > > FreeBSD/alpha SRM CD9660 boot, Revision 1.2 > (root@ds10.freebie.xs4all.nl, Fri Jan 12 17:01:15 UTC 2007) > Memory: 65536 k > Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf > /boot/kernel/kernel data=0x6fed50+0x39a70 syms=[0x8+0x76578+0x8+0x61c05] > - > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... > Entering /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xfffffc00003523b0... > > (...) > > isp0: <Qlogic ISP 1020/1040 PCI SCSI Adapter> port 0x8000-0x80ff mem > 0x800100001 > isp0: interrupting at CIA irq 3 > isp0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > halted CPU 0 > > halt code = 5 > HALT instruction executed > PC = 0 > > (...) > -- cheers! Rob Dosogne Systems Administrator http://www.truthsolo.net/
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