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Subject: Re: 4.2-RC1 failure on 164LX
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Yuck.

I actually don't have any PC164s with a floppy to try.

Based on what I've seen so far with both -current and 4.2, I believe that our
boot loader is not interacting well with SRM- and this will take a while to
fix.

Can you try the non-floppy method?

-matt



> 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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