From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 2 6:23:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A522D37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 06:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106D143E6A for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 06:23:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA11306; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:23:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g92DMeW42068; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:22:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15770.62240.689031.204303@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:22:40 -0400 (EDT) To: Eugene Grosbein Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown and alpha In-Reply-To: <3D9A76A2.783C6EF9@svzserv.kemerovo.su> References: <3D9A76A2.783C6EF9@svzserv.kemerovo.su> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eugene Grosbein writes: > Hi! > > I noted that my Alpha Station 400 running 4.6-STABLE with serial console > does not print 'The operating system halted' message after it has printed > 'Uptime ...'. Why? > On a PC, a "halt" just spins the processor waiting for input because there is no intellegent console firmware to return to. Therefore, it makes sense let the user know that the system has halted.. On an alpha, the SRM console makes it quite obvious what has happened: syncing disks... 3 done Uptime: 15m58s halted CPU 0 halt code = 5 HALT instruction executed PC = fffffc000059fb48 >>> Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message