Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:06:16 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2-RC1 failure on 164LX Message-ID: <14868.11544.99413.861465@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001116103648.jdp@polstra.com> References: <XFMail.001116103648.jdp@polstra.com>
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John Polstra writes:
> I tried the RC1 boot floppies on this machine:
<...>
> 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.)
Alphas don't zero their memory on reboot like PCs do, so a fresh power
up would certainly leave the machine in a different state.
> I would urge everybody who has tested RC1 to try it again on a
> freshly powered-up machine!
I can report that an AS500 5/266 boots both the floppy and CD fine
when freshly powered up:
Digital AlphaStation 500/266 Console V6.7-2
built on Jan 19 1998 at 14:53:02
As does an AS200 4/166:
V6.7-2, built on Jan 20 1998 at 09:56:27
Maybe it is firmware version dependant? I'll try a cold boot of my
UP1000 after it finishes a buildworld, it is rather finicky when it
comes to the loader.
Drew
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