From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Mar 15 7:28: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from po9.andrew.cmu.edu (PO9.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.10.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E01BF14E06 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 07:27:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu) Received: (from postman@localhost) by po9.andrew.cmu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.2) id KAA22419; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:27:32 -0500 (EST) Received: via switchmail; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:27:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from unix6.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:26:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from unix6.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:26:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from mms.4.60.Jun.27.1996.03.02.53.sun4.51.EzMail.2.0.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.unix6.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4m.54 via MS.5.6.unix6.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4_51; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:26:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:26:47 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Valentino Crimi To: alpha@freebsd.org, paul@originative.co.uk Subject: Re: New bootblocks In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Excerpts from FreeBSD-Alpha: 15-Mar-99 New bootblocks by paul@originative.co.uk > halt code = 2 > kernel stack not valid halt > PC = 184ec > I had this same problem, too, making it worse was that I had played around with my boot.conf and guess what, unload was halting (in the older bootblocks, wasn't this recently fixed?) One good replacement to fixit disks I found was that the emergecy shell, while lacking ls (use echo *) did have ifconfig, ppp and mount_nfs if you happen to have a machine nearby to stick an alpha dist on for binaries. The way I got my machine to boot doens't seem like more than luck (replaced bootblocks and booted of an old kernel). Just wanted to share the fixit trick for all who may come to need it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message