From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 18 13:41: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C1B37B401 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:41:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from view.scoundrelz.net (osh202-181.broadacre.com [66.54.202.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20CFF43EFA for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:41:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hemi@scoundrelz.net) Received: from view.scoundrelz.net (localhost.scoundrelz.net [127.0.0.1]) by view.scoundrelz.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9IKeNLL059761; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:40:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hemi@scoundrelz.net) Received: from localhost (hemi@localhost) by view.scoundrelz.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g9IKeNQO059758; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:40:23 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: view.scoundrelz.net: hemi owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:40:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Josh Tolbert To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Andrew Gallatin , Subject: Re: Machine Check when booting dqa0? In-Reply-To: <20021018134257.A43173@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <20021018153853.U59632-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi again, In "show device" at the SRM prompt, only my CD-ROM (DQA0) and floppy drive (DVA0) show up. Is there something I need to do to enable the primary IDE channel, or does the machine just not like those particular (WD) hard drives? Is there something I need to do after the FreeBSD install that I'm missing? Thanks, Josh On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:50:28AM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote: > > > dva0 is the floppy. > > > Oh, yeah...Something else. It's actuall dva0 that I use to try to boot > > from the hard drive. Does that sound fishy? > > > > Thanks, > > Josh > > > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Josh Tolbert wrote: > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > I tried booting from IDE immediately after the power-on, but got > > > the same result every time I tried. > > > The exact machine error is a "660 Machine Check," which from my > > > searching indicates a memory error. Can anyone verify this, and if so is > > > there any way to determine if the problem is board-related or > > > memory-related without swapping the RAM around? I don't have too many EDO > > > ECC SIMMs laying around. > > > Also, is there any place (besides ebay) to find something like a > > > UP1000 Alpha motherboard for a reasonable price? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Josh > > > > > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Have you tried power-cycling the box before attempting to boot? > > > > > > > > On some machines (my up1000 for example), IDE works great the first > > > > time after a cold boot, and then fails upon reboot. (I just get the > > > > timeout messages, not a machine check). FWIW, I think we're not > > > > putting something back the way SRM likes it. > > > > > > > > Drew > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > ---end of quoted text--- > > -- > | / o / /_ _ 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