Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:42:07 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Cc: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Subject: Re: Announcing snapshots.se.freebsd.org - now with AMD64 snapshots Message-ID: <200407271042.07528.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <84928.1090829453@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <84928.1090829453@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Monday 26 July 2004 04:10 am, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20040725214004.GA63752@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Wilko Bulte writes: > >On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:33:37PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <20040725053409.GY2959@sirius.firepipe.net>, Will Andrews writes: > >> >The site also builds i386 and alpha snapshots every day. > >> >Although I admit I haven't been able to figure out what's wrong > >> >with the alpha snaps (they haven't worked since March)... > >> > >> I tried to get my alpha live so I could test tty patches on it > >> but gave up. 5.2.1-R gave the same error as a snapshot from > >> .jp and it looks to me like the machine doesn't even want to > >> recognize the CD as bootable. > > > >There is some outstanding issue with the loader on alpha (toolchain > >related as I understand it) but that should not keep it from getting > >to the 1st stage boot. > > Actually I remembered wrong. > > The jp snapshot gave this: > block 0 of dka100.1.0.2000.0 is not a valid boot block There was an issue where cross-built bsdlabel's wouldn't write out the SRM checksum and boot info that I fixed a while ago. It maybe that the jp machines need to update to a newer world. > Whereas 5.2.1 gave this: > > cia0: extended capabilities: 21<DWEN,BWEN> > pcib0: <2117x PCI host bus adapter> on cia0 > pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 > eisab0: <PCI-EISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 > > halted CPU 0 > > halt code = 7 > machine check while in PAL mode > PC = 18100 This may mean that the eisa probe needs to be less destructive. Perhaps using a kernel w/o the eisa device would work better. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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