From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 08:11:01 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 A258716A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 08:11:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk (pasmtp.tele.dk [193.162.159.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E4043D1D for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 08:11:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (0x50a07c53.naenxx7.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.160.124.83]) by pasmtp.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F561EC30F; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:10:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6Q8ArUT084929; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:10:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Wilko Bulte From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jul 2004 23:40:04 +0200." <20040725214004.GA63752@freebie.xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:10:53 +0200 Message-ID: <84928.1090829453@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk cc: alpha@freebsd.org cc: Will Andrews Subject: Re: Announcing snapshots.se.freebsd.org - now with AMD64 snapshots 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: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 08:11:01 -0000 In message <20040725214004.GA63752@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Wilko Bulte writes: >On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:33:37PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <20040725053409.GY2959@sirius.firepipe.net>, Will Andrews writes: >> >> >The site also builds i386 and alpha snapshots every day. >> >Although I admit I haven't been able to figure out what's wrong >> >with the alpha snaps (they haven't worked since March)... >> >> I tried to get my alpha live so I could test tty patches on it >> but gave up. 5.2.1-R gave the same error as a snapshot from >> .jp and it looks to me like the machine doesn't even want to >> recognize the CD as bootable. > >There is some outstanding issue with the loader on alpha (toolchain >related as I understand it) but that should not keep it from getting >to the 1st stage boot. Actually I remembered wrong. The jp snapshot gave this: block 0 of dka100.1.0.2000.0 is not a valid boot block Whereas 5.2.1 gave this: cia0: extended capabilities: 21 pcib0: <2117x PCI host bus adapter> on cia0 pci0: on pcib0 eisab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 halted CPU 0 halt code = 7 machine check while in PAL mode PC = 18100 >>> -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.