From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 2 08:05:16 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 6A35316A4CE; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:05:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E3943D2F; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:05:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (c211-30-75-229.belrs2.nsw.optusnet.com.au [211.30.75.229]) i8285Dt4006702 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:05:14 +1000 Received: from cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (localhost.alcatel.com.au [127.0.0.1])i8285DxP061867; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:05:13 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from pjeremy@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au) Received: (from pjeremy@localhost)i8285DIw061866; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:05:13 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from pjeremy) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:05:13 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Wilko Bulte , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040902080513.GT423@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <20040829151021.GA43674@bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu> <20040830191325.GA53006@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20040831120529.GB58440@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20040901082845.GA60151@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20040901095118.GA64367@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040901095118.GA64367@freebie.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2/alpha successes/failures 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: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 08:05:16 -0000 On Wed, 2004-Sep-01 11:51:18 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: >On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:28:45PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote.. >> On a AS4100 4xEV5/466 and 8GB RAM (logically reduced to 2GB), >> it hangs just after GEOM configures md0c. > >I think ticso has no such problems on his AS4100(?) I tried disk2 on another AS4100 (1xEV5/533, 1GB RAM) with very mixed results. 1st try: System hung as it was about to write "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)..." 2nd and 3rd tries: System hung after printing Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle md0: Preloaded image 4423680 bytes at 0xfffffc00009c2a80 4th try: System booted successfully and I got into the fixit shell. I also found that I couldn't break into the book sequence - whatever I tried, the kernel would boot straight away. I'm not sure why. This system has been happily running Tru64 for quite some time and I'd be surprised if this was a hardware problem - though the behaviour is difficult to explain otherwise. Once I got into the Fixit shell, I would bring up a DE500 (dc) interface, NFS mount a filesystem and read it. There is definitely a problem with Ctrl-C. stty within the fixit shell reports sane values but running "sleep 60" and trying Ctrl-C brings up the Abort/Restart/Continue window. sleep eventually died with a SIGILL and I wound up with both the fixit shell and sysinstall fighting over the keyboard. This makes the fixit CD very brittle - if you make a mistake, you're likely to have to reboot. dmesg available on request. -- Peter Jeremy