From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Aug 21 11:54:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16027 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 11:54:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16021 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 11:54:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@duke.cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA09632; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:53:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01792; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:53:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:53:44 -0400 (EDT) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Doug Rabson , "Brent J. Nordquist" , John Birrell , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Alpha make buildworld stops at groff In-Reply-To: <1223.903721282@time.cdrom.com> References: <1223.903721282@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13789.49021.995565.325186@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jordan K. Hubbard writes: How far do you get, exactly? Do you have an Intel or Cypress SIO? (show config from the SRM console prompt will tell you). 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. > I've finally got a suitable cable for a serial console - does all of > that work the same way on the ALPHA? And how do you get the thing to Somewhat. It currently follows what the SRM console is using. If you're using a graphics console, it attempts to use the kbd/monitor, if you have previously 'set console serial' in the SRM, then it uses the serial console. > drop into gdb-remote mode when it falls over this quickly? There's no > chance to get into the debugger pre-emptively to type "gdb" for the > next trap. 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. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message