Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:33:35 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Sven Petai <hadara@bsd.ee> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.3 broken on AlphaPC 164LX Message-ID: <20041110193335.GC97385@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <200411102117.31780.hadara@bsd.ee> References: <20041108111610.GA19719@bsd.ee> <20041109100007.GF43113@ip.net.ua> <200411102117.31780.hadara@bsd.ee>
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--DSayHWYpDlRfCAAQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:17:31PM +0200, Sven Petai wrote: > On Tuesday 09 November 2004 12:00, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:16:10PM +0200, Sven Petai wrote: > > > Hi I'm having some problems with getting 5.3 to work on > > > a pcalpha (AlphaPC 164LX). This box was running 5.2.1 > > > until now without any problems. Basically it now panics > > > in most cases right after trying to execute init, > > > sometimes it just hangs there forever. > > > boot messages & panic & some ddb output is available @ > > > http://bsd.ee/~hadara/debug/pcalpha/pcalpha_panic_08.11.2004.txt > > > kernel config is available at: > > > http://bsd.ee/~hadara/debug/pcalpha/kernel.txt > > > > > > any debug ideas ? > > > > I have AlphaPC 164SX which is basically the same h/w, and > > it runs without any illness. >=20 > hmm but are you using IDE or SCSI disks ? > I'm closing in on the commit that broke it for me and currently it seems = to be=20 > something ATA related. >=20 SCSI. > > > how can I tell kernel were it should dump core when it can't > > > reach userland to use dumpdev command ? > > > I tried various ways like setting dumpdev=3D/dev/ad2b from loader > > > and tried to compile it into kernel, without much luck > > > > Good question. Setting dump device early from loader(8) has > > not been supported since 2002 when Poul-Henning re-implemented > > it for GEOM. > > >=20 > maybe references to that possibility should be removed from loaders manpa= ge=20 > and developers handbook then... >=20 This was done in HEAD more than a month ago, I will MFC soon. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --DSayHWYpDlRfCAAQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBkm0PqRfpzJluFF4RAnDMAJ99ZaiXoz9l3Zi52TZkpJ51LY8zvACdGQZG bp4UGEw2Yqs6OW04faIrOEE= =r2IF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DSayHWYpDlRfCAAQ--
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