From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 27 11:44:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20002 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:44:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pacific.net (pacific.pacific.net [199.4.80.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19997 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:44:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ufkartfm@pacific.net) Received: from pacific.net (slime-lake.pacific.net [209.209.2.250]) by pacific.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA28873 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:44:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <365E90B7.201CBDDD@pacific.net> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:44:55 +0000 From: curtis Organization: Flying Snail Ranch X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: [Fwd: Multia - 3.0-19981124-SNAP - report] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------8AE9DFF5E8F0ED8AA96FFDBC" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------8AE9DFF5E8F0ED8AA96FFDBC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------8AE9DFF5E8F0ED8AA96FFDBC Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <365E8F42.2483761D@pacific.net> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:38:42 +0000 From: curtis Organization: Flying Snail Ranch X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Multia - 3.0-19981124-SNAP - report References: <199811271749.JAA03305@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mike, thanks again, I'll try those suggestions later, as my 'visiting' nephew has been waiting since early this morning to (chuckle) get at my game machine; which, is in the same location as this group of machines. anyhow, THANK YOU to Paul Richards -- very much appreciated! Since my last post, (smile) I got out my hammer and chisel, did some quick 'dirty' hacks, and got my first FreeBSD/alpha to boot. here are the current results: # dmesg Unrecognized boot flag '0'. Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.0-19981124-SNAP #0: Fri Nov 27 10:16:19 GMT 1998 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/alienbabies DEC AXPpci (PCI ISA), 267MHz 8192 byte page size, 1 processor. real memory = 64684032 (63168K bytes) avail memory = 58089472 (56728K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xfffffc00005b4000. 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 0x84 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:e5:a6:33 dec_axppci_33_intr_map: bad interrupt pin 16 mcclock0: at port 0x70-0x71 on isa0 sc0 not found sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A, console sio1: reserved for low-level i/o sio1 not found struct nfssvc_sock bloated (> 256bytes) Try reducing NFS_UIDHASHSIZ struct nfsuid bloated (> 128bytes) Try unionizing the nu_nickname and nu_flag fields Timecounter "alpha" frequency 267166666 Hz Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle de0: enabling 10baseT port da0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device da0: 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8) da0: 503MB (1031970 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 503C) cd0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI2 device cd0: 3.300MB/s transfers cd0: cd present [295967 x 2048 byte records] # Mike Smith wrote: > > > MIKE (curtis shouted from across the net) T H A N K Y O U !!! (smile) > > IT WORKED. > > Coolness. Thank Paul Richards for fixing it this time. 8) > > > I am very happy to say I now have an FreeBSD/Alpha 3.0-19981124-SNAP > > running on my Multia VX42 I CAN (now) WRITE TO! > > > > I did run across a few things: > > > > # /sbin/disklabel -B da0 > > /sbin/disklabel: /usr/mdec/daboot: No such file or directory > > # ls -l /usr/mdec/ > > total 14 > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6872 Nov 24 1998 boot1 > > That's arguably a bug in disklabel; it needs to be updated to use /boot > now instead of /usr/mdec. > > > Starting final network daemons:. > > setting ELF ldconfig path: /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat > > setting a.out ldconfig path: /usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout > > ldconfig: illegal option -- a > > usage: ldconfig [-Rmrsv] [-f hints_file] [dir | file ...] > > That looks like a bug in /etc/rc; it's trying to run the a.out ldconfig, > but that doesn't exist on the alpha. > > > Initial rc.alpha initialization:. > > rc.alpha configuring syscons: blank_time/etc/rc.alpha: cannot open > > /dev/ttyv0: no such device or address > > Syscons isn't running; that's normal (but irritating). > > > and, ...if i do not set -flags option after the install and boot dva0 , > > it brings me to the prompt without any error messages. > > Check the flags you've got set in the SRM console; it looks like you're > defaulting to coming up single-user. If you hit ^D at the prompt, it > should continue into multi-user mode. -- curtis - ufkartfm@pacific.net - site administrator for Nobody I want Nobody to control my life! How about you? http://www.netvideo.com/nobody --------------8AE9DFF5E8F0ED8AA96FFDBC-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message