From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 01:46:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C97916A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:46:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carter.lisco.com (carter.lisco.com [69.18.32.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86BCB43D39 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:46:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@thebeatbox.org) Received: from [192.168.0.51] (69-18-56-205.lisco.net [69.18.56.205]) by carter.lisco.com (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id j2T1kQ901602; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:46:27 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4248B3A1.4040006@thebeatbox.org> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:47:13 -0600 From: Roland Wells User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar References: <42484B06.5020509@thebeatbox.org> <20050328213037.GA86043@ns1.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20050328213037.GA86043@ns1.xcllnt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha team, storm the front! X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:46:35 -0000 Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:20:54PM -0600, Roland Wells wrote: > > >>Hello FreeBSD Alpha list, >>I am new to this list and wanted to say hello and thanks for the great >>project. I have been using FreeBSD for fun and production boxes for >>several years now (on i386). I am working on getting a couple Alpha >>boxes running right now. >> >>I'm working on systems based on the PC164SX atx motherboard. Right now I >>have 5.3 installed and running. I am connected over a serial console. >>When it boots it stops and asks for "mountroot>" at which I hit enter to >>abort manual input. (see attached log) >>(is this a function of booting to serial console or single-user mode?) >> >>It then askes for pathname of shell (hit enter again) which takes me to >>single-user mode I believe. >> >>Does this mean that the Alpha port is limited to boot into single-user >>at the moment or is it something specific to my situation or serial >>console? (this is the first time I have installed/connected to a FreeBSD >>over serial console.) >> >>I have attached a log of my box booting, anyone know what the following >>in my SRM section means? >> >>*** no timer interrupts on CPU 0 *** >> >>Also, there is a series of "Unrecognized boot flag" lines in the FreeBSD >>boot, should I be worried about them? >> >> > >Yes. If you look closely, you see that 'n' and 's' are accepted >as flags. The 'n' flag instructs the kernel to ask for the root >file system and the 's' flag means to boot in single-user mode. > >So, you get what you asked for :-) > >*snip* > > >>(boot dka0.0.0.108.0 -flags root=nfsroot) >> >> >*snip* > > >>Entering /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xfffffc0000344c30... >>Unrecognized boot flag 'r'. >>Unrecognized boot flag 'o'. >>Unrecognized boot flag 'o'. >>Unrecognized boot flag 't'. >>Unrecognized boot flag '='. >>Unrecognized boot flag 'f'. >>Unrecognized boot flag 'r'. >>Unrecognized boot flag 'o'. >>Unrecognized boot flag 'o'. >>Unrecognized boot flag 't'. >> >> >*snip* > > > Haha, thanks for the tip, i should have been able to figure that out from the sequence of the flags! I guess they were on there from a previous owner...Set the srm boot_osflags to nothing and im all good now. Thanks again Roland