Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:18:02 +0100 From: Ulrich <freebsd-alpha@infopuls.com> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DEC 500a Message-ID: <20060227231802.8883.qmail@igel.cyberlink.ch> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58a.0509070037220.11377@uhunix2> References: <Pine.GSO.4.58a.0509070037220.11377@uhunix2>
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Hi Pete (and to all kind readers/helpers) have you been able to solve your problem of booting Release 5.4 on your Alpha 500a? I'm asking because I encountered probably the same problem on more or less the same type of machine (Miata). I'm booting with floppy, in fact with the 5 floppies I've prepared. It goes smoothly until it is booting the kernel. It eventually reports ... pci0: <display, VGA> at device 11.0 (no driver attached) pci0: <display> at device 12.0 (no driver attached) halted CPU 0 halt code = 5 HALT instruction executed PC = 1c Your log at http://carl.ics.hawaii.edu/~pete/alpha.txt ends up with similar lines. The difference is that your system features a single display device and the detection of the PCI-PCI bridge, the PCI bus and the QLogic SCSI adapter comes later. The result is pretty much the same. BTW, is there an easy way (other than typing) to capture the output of the booting process into a file? You seem to have managed it, and I know that it should be possible to have the output sent over a serial line, but I don't know how to configure that. I have a serial cable and another machine running FreeBSD 4.9 though. I'm reading the list and I checked the archive to no avail. Would it be a better idea to try 6.0 instead? Or should I try to get an older version like 4.9 e.g.? TIA Ulrich Pete Gross writes: > I have download the alpha iso for fbsd 5.4. I am trying to install it, > but I am not having any luck. I have tried to find info on google or irc, > but haven't had any luck there either. > > Basically my problem is that when I type 'boot dka0' at the srm prompt it > goes and loads the kernel, but it eventually just stops and says > > "halted cpu 0 > halt code = 5 > HALT instruction executed > PC = 1C" > > The last couple lines before this is detecting the scsi qlogic 1020/1040 > adapter. > > I am wondering what is going wrong and what can I do to fix this problem?
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