Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:36:48 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: 4.2-RC1 failure on 164LX Message-ID: <XFMail.001116103648.jdp@polstra.com>
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I tried the RC1 boot floppies on this machine:
EB164
Digital AlphaPC 164LX 533 MHz, 531MHz
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
CPU: EV56 (21164A) major=7 minor=2 extensions=0x1<BWX>
OSF PAL rev: 0x1000200020117
real memory = 132046848 (128952K bytes)
avail memory = 123183104 (120296K bytes)
but it wouldn't boot from them. It loaded /boot/loader OK and got
this far (copying by hand from the screen):
FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision 1.0
(root@rawhide.osd.bsdi.com, Thu Nov 9 07:30:33 GMT 2000)
Memory: 131072 k
-
halted CPU 0
halt code = 2
kernel stack not valid halt
PC = 200000000
>>>
Actually the behavior varies. Another time it did this:
Loading /boot/loader
Can't open file /boot/loader
halted CPU 0
halt code = 5
HALT instruction executed
PC = 20000038
>>>
I think it is a failure to initialize something. If I first boot
up -current from my hard drive and then try booting from the floppy
without powering down the machine, the floppy works fine and gets me
to the installation menu. But when I try to boot a freshly powered
machine from the floppy, it fails. (I haven't tried this very many
times, but that seems to be the pattern.)
I would urge everybody who has tested RC1 to try it again on a
freshly powered-up machine!
John
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