From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 26 09:10:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0099A16A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:10:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsv01.comindico.com.au (mailsv01.comindico.com.au [203.194.27.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BC4843D31 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:10:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robbyrnes@fastmail.com.au) Received: from fastmail.com.au (dialup-158.88.221.203.acc50-kent-syd.comindico.com.au [203.221.88.158]) by mailsv01.comindico.com.au (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AFC08502; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:41:59 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <4062B734.5030505@fastmail.com.au> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:40:53 +1100 From: Rob B User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <87y8pwiobj.fsf@strauser.com> <405BC69F.4050908@ozemail.com.au> <91B3C456-7BBA-11D8-BD21-003065A6F8A0@nexthop.net> In-Reply-To: <91B3C456-7BBA-11D8-BD21-003065A6F8A0@nexthop.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Rob B cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 on a Cabriolet? X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:10:37 -0000 Michael DeLisle wrote: > On Mar 19, 2004, at 11:20 PM, Rob B wrote: > >> >> I was never able to get anything higher that 5.1-RELEASE booting on >> this box >> >> I wrote: >> >> >> jumping to bootstrap code >> loading /boot/loader >> | >> halted CPU 0 >> >> halt code = 2 >> kernel stack not valid halt >> PC = 7000000f0000 >> boot failure >> >> There doesn't appear to be a /boot/loader.old that I can load either. >> >> I'm in the process of trying John Baldwins floppies - see recent >> postings on that >> >> cheers, >> Rob > > > > FWIW, I'm currently running 5.2.1 on a Cabriolet: > (from dmesg) > > FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1: Fri Feb 27 04:16:45 EST 2004 > root@alpha-trion.nexthop.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ALPHA-TRION > Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xfffffc0000770000. > EB64+ > Digital AlphaPC 64 274 MHz, 274MHz > > I was able to install 5.2-release (via cdrom) and cvsup to > 5.2.1-release successfully. > > I had some problems running 5.2 as a bridging firewall, the box > would randomly reboot on me from time to time. I never troubleshot the > issue, and haven't tried the bridging firewall again with 5.2.1. > > 5.2.1 however has been stable enough to run my squid proxy, bind9, > and various scripts. I've installed 5.0-BETA as it's all that would boot from floppies, I've got my source at 5.2.1-RELEASE and I'm (slowly) building world and a new kernel now. We'll see what happens. cheers, Rob -- We don't hate vegetarians, we just think they're funny. This is random quote 1145 of 1254. Distance from the centre of the brewing universe [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5