From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 29 11:02:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03414 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:02:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pacific.net (pacific.pacific.net [199.4.80.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03405 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:02:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ufkartfm@pacific.net) Received: from pacific.net (slime-lake.pacific.net [209.209.2.250]) by pacific.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA14632; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:01:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36384AF7.C1A13091@pacific.net> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:01:11 +0000 From: curtis Organization: Flying Snail Ranch X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Rabson CC: Jim King , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaStation 200 doesn't boot? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hi jim, i had the same problem on my machine and here is what i did to get around it. i realize this is for a multia, but it may work for you. target machine: digital multia/266MHz/64MB get the multia kernel from mike smith's site: http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/alpha/kernel.MULTIA cp kernel.MULTIA kernel gzip kernel get kern.flp and mfsroot.gz from your favorite mirror (out of floppies/freebsd/) dd kern.flp to a floppy mount the floppy and replace kernel.gz with the one you built above copy mfsroot.gz to a second disk and turn on the multia and insert boot disk. Testing Memory from 8 to 64 meg... Executing power-up script... Testing TGA version BL5 V3.8-1 Jun 22 1995 18:10:45 dka0.0.0.6.0 DKA0 TOSHIBA MK2526FB 908B dka600.6.0.6.0 DKA600 MEDIAVIS RENO CD-ROMX2A 2.04 dva0.0.0.0.1 DVA0 ewa0.0.0.8.0 EWA0 08-00-2B-E5-A6-33 pka0.7.0.6.0 PKA0 SCSI Bus ID 7 64 Meg of system memory *** keyboard not plugged in... Keyboard error; using serial port terminal >>>boot dva0 (boot dva0.0.0.0.1 -flags 0) block 0 of dva0.0.0.0.1 is a valid boot block reading 14 blocks from dva0.0.0.0.1 bootstrap code read in base = 166000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1c00 initializing HWRPB at 2000 initializing page table at 158000 initializing machine state setting affinity to the primary CPU jumping to bootstrap code Console: SRM firmware console VMS PAL rev: 0x1000000010530 OSF PAL rev: 0x1000000020123 Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded. FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision (root@sloth.noc.erols.net, Wed Oct 28 15:45:43 GMT 1998) Memory: 65536 k /kernel data=0x1f91a8+0x24ce0 syms=[0x8+0x3c3c0+0x8+0x222c0] Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: Entering kernel at 0xfffffc0000320360... Unrecognized boot flag '0'. [ kernel symbol table not valid ] Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.0-BETA #1: Fri Oct 2 16:56:16 PDT 1998 msmith@beast.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/MULTIA DEC AXPpci (PCI ISA), 267MHz 8192 byte page size, 1 processor. real memory = 64684032 (63168K bytes) avail memory = 58277888 (56912K bytes) lca0: <21066 PCI adapter> isa0 Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: ncr0: rev 0x01 int a irq 11 on pci0.6.0 chip0: rev 0x84 on pci0.7.0 de0: rev 0x23 int a irq 15 on pci0.8.0 de0: DEC 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 de0: address 08:00:2b:e5:a6:33 vga0: rev 0x02 int a irq 10 on pci0.11.0 mcclock0: at 0x70-0x71 on isa0 sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A, console sio1: reserved for low-level i/o sio1 not found struct nfssvc_sock bloated (> 256bytes) Try reducing NFS_UIDHASHSIZ struct nfsuid bloated (> 128bytes) Try unionizing the nu_nickname and nu_flag fields Timecounter "alpha" frequency 267166666 Hz cost 173 ns de0: enabling 10baseT port da0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device da0: 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8) da0: 503MB (1031970 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 503C) cd0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI2 device cd0: 3.300MB/s transfers cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: # (smile) well, at least it gets me to a prompt. good luck, curtis Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jim King wrote: > > > After all the messages below there's no further output. This box doesn't > > have a video card - is there a boot flag I need to tell the kernel to use > > the serial console, or something? > > There is a problem with the syscons probe when a machine doesn't actually > have a video card. At the moment, you will need a kernel which has the > syscons driver removed. This is on my list of things to fix but if > someone beats me to it, I won't complain :-) > > -- > Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com > Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 > Fax: +44 181 381 1039 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message -- curtis - ufkartfm@pacific.net - site administrator for Nobody I want Nobody to control my life! How about you? http://www.netvideo.com/nobody To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message