From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Apr 18 12:36:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C656237B425 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA13653; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:36:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g3IJa6X94705; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:36:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15551.8230.74491.785733@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:36:06 -0400 (EDT) To: "Yuri Victorovich" Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel boot hangs on DS7310: SCSI bus reset delivered In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yuri Victorovich writes: > I am trying to install FreeBSD-STABLE 4.5 on > Alpha DS7310. I'm not sure what a 7310 is. Is it similar to a 7305? Eg, is this a white-box AS4100? > Kernel boot hangs in the middle. > > <...> > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle. > (noperiph:sym1:0:-1:-1): SCSI bus reset delivered > (noperiph:sym2:0:-1:-1): SCSI bus reset delivered > > > I know similar question was asked before but no answer > was provided. > > I will be happy to provide the whole boot log but don't know > how to do this on alpha. It's serial port doesn't work for > whatever reason and this is just screen output. What have you tried in the way of debugging the serial port problem? Are you using a null-modem cable (9600,8,N,1)? > Boot floppies were taken from FTP 2 months ago. > > Any suggestions? Sym cards have been known to exhibit problems on server class alphas running 4.x. This not the sym driver's fault; rather it is due to the hacky way 4.x deals with multiple PCI hoses (hose is DEQ term for "peer bus"). The failure mode usually involves lots of warnings from the driver about various sanity checks failing. The only suggestion I can make is to try the FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1. 5.0 has better support for the multiple hoses used in server class machines. As an added bonus, you'll get SMP support. See http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP1/announce.html for a list of mirror sites, etc. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message