From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 16 11: 6:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E0D37B4CF for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:06:17 -0800 (PST) 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 OAA15669; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:06:17 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAGJ6Ge40019; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:06:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:06:16 -0500 (EST) To: John Polstra Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2-RC1 failure on 164LX In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14868.11544.99413.861465@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message