From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 1 18:25:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08145 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:25:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from schizo.com (schizo.com [216.27.37.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA08140 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:25:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bits@oldwarez.com) Received: from oldwarez.com (bits@oldwarez.com [216.27.37.18]) by schizo.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA01704 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:31:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:31:25 -0400 (EDT) From: BitS X-Sender: bits@schizo.com To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: UDB/Multia boot 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 Ok, so the multia progress is getting further then before, however, it appears syscons isn't TGA friendly. So, I switch to serial in the hopes that it would make a difference. It didn't. I did notice Doug saying there was no TGA support at all currently so this isn't to suprising, however, being that a large ammount of alphas currently come with TGA cards, is it possible to put in some simple, possbly just puts() to get text data moving through? In the off chance that I'm wrong and this machine should be getting further then it is, heres my boot squence, first without -v and then a snip of the boot with a -v... pm0.rtci.com> attach s29 Trying 216.27.37.10 ... Connected - Escape character is '^]'. Testing Memory from 8 to 16 meg... Executing power-up script... version BL5 V3.8-3 Aug 10 1995 03:22:55 dka0.0.0.6.0 DKA0 SEAGATE ST32151N 0284 dva0.0.0.0.1 DVA0 ewa0.0.0.8.0 EWA0 08-00-2B-E4-3C-C6 pka0.7.0.6.0 PKA0 SCSI Bus ID 7 16 Meg of system memory CPU speed is 166 MHZ Cache size is 256 Kbytes *** keyboard not plugged in... Keyboard error; using serial port terminal >>>boot dka0 -file kernel.gz (boot dka0.0.0.6.0 -file kernel.gz -flags -a) block 0 of dka0.0.0.6.0 is a valid boot block reading 15 blocks from dka0.0.0.6.0 bootstrap code read in base = 166000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1e00 initializing HWRPB at 2000 initializing page table at 158000 initializing machine state setting affinity to the primary CPU jumping to bootstrap code NetBSD/Alpha Primary Boot Jumping to entry point... NetBSD/Alpha Secondary Boot, Revision 1.9 (cgd@notunix, Mon May 11 02:03:30 PDT 1998) VMS PAL revision: 0x1000000010530 OSF PAL rev: 0x1000000020123 Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded. Boot file: kernel.gz Boot flags: -a Loading kernel.gz... 2159040+172568 [33848+1542+256896+146129] Entering kernel.gz at 0xfffffc0000320fe0... Unrecognized boot flag '-'. [ preserving 443608 bytes of kernel symbol table ] 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 #22: Sun Sep 27 11:52:18 BST 1998 dfr@miata.nlsystems.com:/mnt/herring/b/dfr/FreeBSD/alpha/src/sys/compile/GENERIC DEC AXPpci (PCI ISA), 167MHz 8192 byte page size, 1 processor. real memory = 14352384 (14016K bytes) avail memory = 9322496 (9104K 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 0x03 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:e4:3c:c6 vga0: rev 0x02 int a irq 10 on pci0.11.0 mcclock0: at 0x70-0x71 on isa0 sc0 at 0x60 irq 1 on isa0 with a boot dka0 -file kernel.gz -flags -v syscons says: mcclock0: at 0x70-0x71 on isa0 sc0: no video adapter is found. sc0 at 0x60 irq 1 on isa0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wimsey Network Engineer dwimsey@rtci.com Research Triangle Consultants, Inc 919-380-9771x3101 http://www.rtci.com http://www.schizo.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- He who laughs last, is slow. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message