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Date:      Sun, 27 May 2001 12:35:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: loader broken
Message-ID:  <15121.11456.143667.486928@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010525163719.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <XFMail.010525163719.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin writes:
 > 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. :(
 > 


Since loader.old is screwed too,  I'd guess the culprit is the extra
allocation in src/sys/boot/forth/loader.4th rev 1.20

I just tried to start tracking this down, but my UP1000 test machine
seems to still boot with the new loader.

Drew

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