From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 16 10:36:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09A537B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:36:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA26031; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:36:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:36:48 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: 4.2-RC1 failure on 164LX Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message