Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 10:05:21 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Shashi Dookhee <dookhee.s@trafficproximity.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel Panic on DEC Alpha 1000A 5/400 Message-ID: <20011027100521.B7751@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <15322.3425.700773.484721@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:26:57PM -0400 References: <MNEAKCLKAEKLKKPGAOJBIEMPENAA.dookhee.s@trafficproximity.com> <15322.3425.700773.484721@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:26:57PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > 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? What machine model is this anyway? Can you please also do a >>> show memory ? I've seen something similar on AS2100A with partially bad memory. VMS does not care, and maps out the bad pages. FreeBSD just crashed. Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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