From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 7 10:18:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.interchange.ca (ns.interchange.ca [216.126.79.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F4437B719 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:18:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael@fastmail.ca) Received: by mail.interchange.ca (Fastmailer, from userid 555) id 4EAC320F7; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:18:08 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <3AA67B60.00024F.52902@frodo.searchcanada.ca> Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary="------------Boundary-00=_8UAU6WVYANYPJEDD7TH0" To: mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: AS 1200 Install Problems Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Michael Richards" X-Fastmail-IP: 24.43.130.237 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:18:08 -0500 (EST) Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------Boundary-00=_8UAU6WVYANYPJEDD7TH0 Content-Type: Text/Plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If I could get it installed on this machine, it was my intention to start building debug boot floppies and find/fix the problem. Is it possible that since I'm running the very latest SRM version that I'm experiencing this problem while others are not? How long before I can get a 4.3 boot floppy image? -Michael > Akk. This is awful. You're now expriencing symptoms that are the > same as what the floppy boot has. > > My only suggestion on this is to see what 4.3 does for you- a > change in size of bootblock heap went in and I'm *hoping* that > this clears this problem up (for now good reason- we really don't > know what's happening here except that SRM all of a sudden stops > being able to do I/O to the device we're reading from). > > -matt > > > >> Hi. >> >> I've got an AlphaServer 1200 with 2 533 CPUs in it. I installed >> the latest version of SRM and was not able to get it to boot from >> disk. I hear that the fdd boot does not work properly. >> >> I downloaded boot.flp (the 2.88mb version). I put the boot drive >> in another system and ran: >> dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/da1 >> Which should have copied the image to the disk. I put the disk >> back into the AS1200 and here is what it said when I tried to >> boot from it: >> >> AlphaServer 1200 Console V5.9-5, 8-JAN-2001 10:05:24 >> >> CPU 0 booting >> >> (boot dka600.6.0.1.1 -flags 0) >> block 0 of dka600.6.0.1.1 is a valid boot block >> reading 15 blocks from dka600.6.0.1.1 >> bootstrap code read in >> Building FRU table >> base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1e00 >> initializing HWRPB at 2000 >> initializing page table at 1f2000 >> initializing machine state >> setting affinity to the primary CPU >> jumping to bootstrap code >> Loading /boot/loader >> Console: SRM firmware console >> VMS PAL rev: 0x4000200010115 >> OSF PAL rev: 0x4000200020117 >> Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded. >> >> FreeBSD Alpha SRM boot disk, Revision 1.0 >> (jkh@rawhide.osd.bsdi.com, Tue Nov 21 03:14:37 GMT 2000) >> Memory: 262144 k >> failed to send read to dka600.6.0.1.1 >> device dka600.6.0.1.1 no longer valid >> >> Anyone have any ideas? >> >> -Michael >> _________________________________________________________________ >> http://fastmail.ca/ - Fast Free Web Email for Canadians _________________________________________________________________ http://fastmail.ca/ - Fast Free Web Email for Canadians --------------Boundary-00=_8UAU6WVYANYPJEDD7TH0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message