Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 15:51:08 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: porting to EB64+ / Alpine Message-ID: <13977.4332.669944.1550@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <199901101824.TAA06131@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901101159500.381-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> <199901101824.TAA06131@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Wilko Bulte writes: > > And a related problem: on _some_ system boots I get a 'stuttering' output. > So, the bootmessages appear in fragments, about 1 fragment a second. > And in the end the whole thing hangs multiple times for 20-30 seconds, > before printing the console login: In the end it gets to login: > > It seems that this happens if I halt FreeBSD, and then do a boot from the > SRM _without_ hitting the reset button first. > > It looks like if something needs to get whacked on the head first, something > a reset apparantly provides. I suspect this has something to do with > interrupt handling. Suggestions are as always welcome. I've seen this too, but its never bothered me enough to chase down. As a hackish workaround, type 'init' at the srm console before booting if you've halted via ddb. This should provide the same effect as hitting reset. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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