From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 27 16:25:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from b0rked.org (ayanami.b0rked.org [64.81.180.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3F1637B42C for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 16:25:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@b0rked.org) Received: (qmail 80059 invoked by uid 1001); 27 May 2001 23:19:33 -0000 Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 16:19:33 -0700 From: Nick Barkas To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: problems booting 4.3-RELEASE on 164LX Message-ID: <20010527161933.C79954@b0rked.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Forgive me if this has been addressed before, but I'm new to this list (and new to dealing with alphas). I recently installed 4.3-RELEASE on an 164LX 533 MHz Alpha machine (can't remember the exact number of the CPU) with a Seagate ST39102LW SCSI drive holding the root filesystem. The installation went through without any problems (booted from floppies and did an ftp install), but after the system is installed it simply will not boot. I specified: boot dka0 (the device name for my Seagate drive) From the SRM console, and I get the following output: (boot dka0.0.0.9.0 -flags 0) block 0 of dka0.0.0.9.0 is a valid boot block reading 15 blocks from dka0.0.0.9.0 bootstrap code read in base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1e00 initializing HWRPB at 2000 initializing page table at 3ffee000 initializing machine state setting affinity to the primary CPU jumping to bootstrap code Loading /boot/loader and from there the system hangs for several minutes. I hear disk activity, but I do not get anything back on the console for several minutes. Eventually, this is spit out on my screen: I/O request to dka0.0.0.9.0 is invanlid (check type, offset, and size) halted CPU 0 halt code = 2 kernel stack not valid halt PC = af0000000848bf24 >>> Right back to the start. This error looks to me like a possible disk geometry problem, but I had no problems with partitioning that drive and I know it funcitoned without any issues in other machines running different OS'. Also, I'm uncertain if its possible to specify disk geometry within the alpha SRM console. I also tried specifying the location of the kernel and some flags for it from the SRM console like so: boot dka0 -file kernel -flags s and had the same issues. If anyone has any ideas on a fix (such as possibly a way to reinstall loader, fix the drive geometry, or boot FreeBSD from a floppy I'd greatly appreciate the assistance. -- Nick Barkas nick@b0rked.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message