From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 6 17:56:07 2003 Return-Path: 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 7EC0316A4CE for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 17:56:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from smta10.mail.ozemail.net (smta10.mail.ozemail.net [203.103.165.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAEE843F85 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 17:56:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) Received: from cartman.ozemail.com.au ([203.61.141.106]) by smta10.mail.ozemail.net with ESMTP <20031207015457.YOIJ24980.smta10.mail.ozemail.net@cartman.ozemail.com.au>; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 01:54:57 +0000 Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.2.20031207125004.023f7ec0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: pop.ozemail.com.au/110/rbyrnes@127.0.0.1 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.1.1 Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 12:56:02 +1100 To: ticso@cicely.de From: Rob B In-Reply-To: <20031207011129.GZ42518@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <6.0.1.1.2.20031207114545.024cb5e0@127.0.0.1> <20031207011129.GZ42518@cicely12.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2-BETA issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 01:56:07 -0000 At 12:11 PM 7/12/2003, Bernd Walter sent this up the stick: >On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:54:10AM +1100, Rob B wrote: > > I'd like to try 5.2-BETA on my PC64, it was running 5.1-RELEASE, but > when I > > cvsupped to -CURRENT and followed the build world, buildkernel, > > installkernel, reboot steps in /usr/src/UPDATING, I now get a kernel stack > > fault: > > > > > > FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision > > (root@aylee.number6, Sun Nov 30 04:07:30 EST 2003) > > Memory 131072 k > > \ > > halted CPU 0 > > > > halt code = 2 > > kernel stack not valid halt > > PC = 18110 > > boot failure > >Switch to a /boot/loader.old for recovery. >You have to press space at the right time - IIRC directly after the >first SRM booting message loaded from disk - to give an alternate name. Thanks, caught it > > Will there be floppies built for 5.2-BETA (or 5.2-RELEASE for that matter)? > >There will be no more floppies because of size issues. bugger :( I don't suppose that FreeBSD will ever suport dd-ing whatever file will be used to boot from to swap space in the same way that Open- and NetBSD do? At least this way there won't be so much of a size restriction on that file. cheers, Rob -- A redneck's last words: "Hey Bubba, watch this!" This is random quote 176 of 1254. Distance from the centre of the brewing universe [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5