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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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