Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:37:04 -0500 From: Michael DeLisle <mikedotd@nexthop.net> To: Rob B <robbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 on a Cabriolet? Message-ID: <91B3C456-7BBA-11D8-BD21-003065A6F8A0@nexthop.net> In-Reply-To: <405BC69F.4050908@ozemail.com.au> References: <87y8pwiobj.fsf@strauser.com> <405BC69F.4050908@ozemail.com.au>
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On Mar 19, 2004, at 11:20 PM, Rob B wrote: > Kirk Strauser wrote: >> I'm using a PC64 (from dmesg: "Digital AlphaPC 64 274 MHz, 274MHz") >> with >> three fxp cards as a firewall/router. The machine is currently >> running >> 4.9-STABLE, but I imagine that I'll be needing to upgrade to 5.x at >> some >> time soon when that becomes the stable branch. >> Right now, I'm using 5-CURRENT on a few x86 servers with great >> success, but >> I don't want to attempt to upgrade my router until I feel fairly >> confident >> that I can do it without too much downtime or emergency restoral from >> backups. So, does anyone have an opinion on whether 5.2.1 would >> probably be >> stable enough to upgrade at this time, or would I be better off >> waiting >> until 5-STABLE comes along? >> On the one hand, I don't want to upgrade prematurely. On the other >> hand, I >> don't want to wait until the 4-STABLE brance is completely dead so >> that I >> have no real fallback position if I encounter some weird hardware >> incompatibility. > > Kirk, > > I was never able to get anything higher that 5.1-RELEASE booting on > this box > > I wrote: > > <snip> > jumping to bootstrap code > loading /boot/loader > | > halted CPU 0 > > halt code = 2 > kernel stack not valid halt > PC = 7000000f0000 > boot failure > > There doesn't appear to be a /boot/loader.old that I can load either. > > I'm in the process of trying John Baldwins floppies - see recent > posings on that > > cheers, > Rob FWIW, I'm currently running 5.2.1 on a Cabriolet: (from dmesg) FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1: Fri Feb 27 04:16:45 EST 2004 root@alpha-trion.nexthop.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ALPHA-TRION Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xfffffc0000770000. EB64+ Digital AlphaPC 64 274 MHz, 274MHz I was able to install 5.2-release (via cdrom) and cvsup to 5.2.1-release successfully. I had some problems running 5.2 as a bridging firewall, the box would randomly reboot on me from time to time. I never troubleshot the issue, and haven't tried the bridging firewall again with 5.2.1. 5.2.1 however has been stable enough to run my squid proxy, bind9, and various scripts. --mike.d
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