From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 17 17:50:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A7E16A4ED for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:50:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@truthsolo.net) Received: from twu.net (bilbo.twu.net [64.246.24.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F5013C46A for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:50:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@truthsolo.net) Received: from [192.168.123.108] (197-76.126-70.tampabay.res.rr.com [70.126.76.197]) (authenticated bits=0) by twu.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l0HH9gki003991 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:09:42 -0500 Message-ID: <45AE57A6.1040104@truthsolo.net> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:06:46 -0500 From: Rob Dosogne User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org References: <88F3FB25-A363-4E91-A637-213116F58356@avalon.net> In-Reply-To: <88F3FB25-A363-4E91-A637-213116F58356@avalon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Alpha PWS 433au (MiataGL) halts when booting installation CD, with "halt code = 5" X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:50:26 -0000 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: 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/