From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 16 14:36:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF58237B4C5 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:36:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA27468; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:36:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAGMaHo49538; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:36:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:36:17 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011162236.eAGMaHo49538@vashon.polstra.com> To: alpha@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: 4.2-RC1 failure on 164LX In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article , Matthew Jacob wrote: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John Polstra wrote: > > > I don't know whether this is useful info or not, but the -stable > > from Oct. 31 which is installed on my hard drive boots fine using > > -current's loader. "Huh?" OK, I have a dual boot setup with -current > > on da0a and -stable on da0f. So when I boot, -current's loader always > > gets control. Then I can make it boot -stable like this: > > > > unload > > set currdev=disk0f > > boot /kernel > > > > That works reliably. > > Hmm. I'm starting to think my whole failure report should be viewed with doubt. I have just now successfully used the RC1 floppy 3 times in a row, each time after a powered-off period of a minute or more. The diskette media is a bit suspect. After writing the kern.flp image initially, I checked it with "dd < /dev/rfd0 | cmp - kern.flp" and got a read error. (This was not on the Alpha machine.) I reformatted the diskette and it seemed OK after that. But it may be a bit flaky. I understand that the SRM is supposed to complain about media errors, but I'd believe it more if I had ever seen it happen with my own two eyes. (Sorry, that's why I'm a programmer.) John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message