From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Aug 23 04:59:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA05471 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:59:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA05461 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:59:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA14161; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 13:00:37 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 13:00:37 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Andrew Gallatin , "Brent J. Nordquist" , John Birrell , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Alpha make buildworld stops at groff In-Reply-To: <9098.903870165@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > How far do you get, exactly? Do you have an Intel or Cypress SIO? > > (show config from the SRM console prompt will tell you). > > Good question! ``show config'' just shows "Device: 2, Name: COM1, > Type: Embedded, Enabled: Yes, BaseAddr: 3f8, IRQ: 4, DMA: None" > [simimar entry for COM2, with the expected addr/IRQ diffs]. > > Not very instructive on the topic of chipsets and such. :( > > > One handy tip is to be absolutely certain to configure the root disk > > to match what you're actually using. It tends to blow up rather > > spectacularly when it cannot mount root / run init. > > It never gets far enough for that to be a problem. :) > > > Make sure to have 'options DDB' defined, then boot with the -d flag. > > That should drop you into ddb almost immediately after the kernel > > begins execution. > > OK, I've gotten this far now - I'll work on compiling up a gdb on the > x86 which understands alpha (Doug sent me a configure line earlier) > and start running serial cables. :) There is one in my home directory on freefall - ~dfr/alpha-unknown-linux-gdb.gz. I usually set up the com2 port for serial debugging which leaves com1 open for serial console etc. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message