From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Feb 4 16:20:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D0C9430F for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:20:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA20028 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:20:58 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:20:58 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot failure In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Steve Price wrote: # I just rebuilt my -current Alpha with sources from earlier today. # When I rebooted the machine I saw the following messages. # # ... # jumping to bootstrap code # *** no timer interrupts on CPU 0 *** # \ # halted CPU 0 # # halt code = 2 # kernel stack not valid halt # PC = 7b555e85cfa773e0 # boot failure # >>> Update to my own question: This problem seems to be caused by the following commit. I reverted to revision 1.3 and things are working as they should. RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/alpha/common/Makefile.common,v ---------------------------- revision 1.4 date: 1999/12/27 09:20:33; author: peter; state: Exp; lines: +14 -4 Connect up the bootforth glue and compile it, but don't initialize it at runtime as it has a nasty habit of crashing on the Alpha :-(. This is being done this way so we have a common starting point for debugging. ---------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message