From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 15 17:29:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9511937B881 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:29:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04165; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:31:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003160131.RAA04165@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mike Tibor Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting on Alpha After Install In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:49:47 -0900." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:31:49 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This generally suggests that the loader (/boot/loader) is corrupt. Unfortunately SRM isn't very kind about alternate media; you might want to try booting the install media again and drop into 'fixit' mode and then go look at /boot and see whether things are all there. > I had no problems whatsoever installing either 3.4-RELEASE or the > 4.0-20000307 snapshot on a pc164 alpha system, however I can't get the > new system to boot (I'm using the most recent SRM firmware from > gatekeeper.dec.com). > > Doing a "show dev" in SRM confirms that my hard disk is DKA0, but I've > tried the following without success: > > boot dka0 > boot dka0 -fi /kernel > > Both of the above commands yield the following error: > > ====================================================== > block 0 of dka0.0.0.9.0 is a valid boot block > reading 15 blocks from dka0.0.0.9.0 > bootstrap code read in > base = 180000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1e00 > initializing HWRPB at 2000 > initializing page table at 172000 > initializing machine state > setting affinity to the primary CPU > jumping to bootstrap code > Loading /boot/loader > > halted CPU 0 > > halt code = 2 > kernel stack not valid halt > PC = 1004080391d248 > ====================================================== > > Searching the archives brings up a couple of similar messages, but > unfortunately no answers that I could see. > > I come from the Linux world and have no experience with FreeBSD, so I > don't know for certain if my boot commands are correct (ie, missing > flags or the wrong kernel filename--please be gentle if that's the case > :-) ) > > Thanks, > Mike > -- > Mike Tibor Univ. of Alaska Anchorage (907) 786-1001 voice > Network Technician Consortium Library (907) 786-6050 fax > tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/~tibor/ > http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/~tibor/pgpkey for PGP public key > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message