From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 20:37:07 2004 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 28DA616A4E2 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:37:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D76743D31 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:37:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikedotd@nexthop.net) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (h00045af217e7.ne.client2.attbi.com[66.31.200.25]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <2004032204370501600a9bg3e>; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:37:05 +0000 In-Reply-To: <405BC69F.4050908@ozemail.com.au> References: <87y8pwiobj.fsf@strauser.com> <405BC69F.4050908@ozemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <91B3C456-7BBA-11D8-BD21-003065A6F8A0@nexthop.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael DeLisle Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:37:04 -0500 To: Rob B X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 on a Cabriolet? 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: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:37:07 -0000 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: > > > 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