From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 2 7: 0:53 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 48E2F37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 07:00:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grosbein.pp.ru (www2.svzserv.kemerovo.su [213.184.65.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE77243E42 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 07:00:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.pp.ru) Received: from grosbein.pp.ru (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grosbein.pp.ru (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g92DvoIF002085 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 21:57:50 +0800 (KRAST) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.pp.ru) Received: (from eugen@localhost) by grosbein.pp.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g92DdAuZ001578; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 21:39:10 +0800 (KRAST) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 21:39:09 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown and alpha Message-ID: <20021002213909.A1546@grosbein.pp.ru> References: <3D9A76A2.783C6EF9@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <15770.62240.689031.204303@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 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 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