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Date:      Sat, 26 May 2001 10:00:31 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: loader broken
Message-ID:  <20010526100031.D14953@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010525163719.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@freebsd.org on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:37:19PM -0700
References:  <XFMail.010525163719.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:37:19PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:

Ouch... thank you, I just read this 30 secs before I planned to installworld
my PWS600au 

Wilko

> Looks like the loader is hosed:
> 
> Loading /boot/loader
> Console: SRM firmware console
> VMS PAL rev: 0x1000000010114
> OSF PAL rev: 0x1000000020116
> Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded.
> 
> FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision 1.1
> (jhb@baz.osd.bsdi.com, Fri May 25 16:22:52 PDT 2001)
> Memory: 262144 k
> \
> halted CPU 0
> 
> halt code = 2
> kernel stack not valid halt
> PC = 200000000
> boot failure
> >>> e ra
> gpr:               1A (   R26) FFFFFC00005A21B4
> 
> Hmm.  Crap would be a good term here I think.  loader.old doesn't work either. 
> It seems to die while loading the kernel.  I wonder if my kernel is too big and
> is now triggering a bug in the loader?  This is a major PITA now. :(
> 
> For loader.old the RA is 0x0000000020025F18
> 
> Hmm, I seem to be rather screwed now until I can take this drive out and move
> it to another system I suppose. :(

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