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Date:      Wed, 2 Oct 2002 21:39:09 +0800
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: shutdown and alpha
Message-ID:  <20021002213909.A1546@grosbein.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <15770.62240.689031.204303@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:22:40AM -0400
References:  <3D9A76A2.783C6EF9@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <15770.62240.689031.204303@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:22:40AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

>  > 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
> 	>>>

It says 'boot failed' before >>> for my Alpha.
What does it mean?

Eugene Grosbein

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