Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:10:02 -0800 (PST) From: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.EDU> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alpha/17642: FreeBSD/alpha 4.0 RELEASE installation fails with cant find init Message-ID: <200003291710.JAA03977@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR alpha/17642; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.EDU> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha/17642: FreeBSD/alpha 4.0 RELEASE installation fails with cant find init Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:01:09 -0800 (PST) On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I can't reproduce this on any of our alpha machines; can you tell me a > bit more about the configuration? > Sure -- I actually realized after I hit the send button that my hardware configuration wasn't specified: AlphaPC164 366MHz, 128MB RAM, SRM v. 5.5 (I think -- I upgraded several months ago with the firmware CD included with Tru64 5.0). The system has 2 IDE disks on ata0, the master has NT, the slave has Redhat 6.1 -- these disks are seen by SRM, ata1 has a CD-ROM drive, not seen by SRM. I put an ELSA Gloria Synergy video card in the system. It has a SCSI/Ethernet PCI combo card that was originally in an AlphaStation 600 5/266. The combo card has 2 Qlogic ISP 1020 UW SCSI channels and a DEC 21040-AA 10MB ethernet. The card has a 21050 bridge (?) chip on it. On SCSI channel A I have an IBM 18GB UW disk and on SCSI channel B I have a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM. This card works with Linux, Tru64 and OpenVMS (I haven't tried NetBSD or switched to ARC and tried NT). If I try to boot FreeBSD either from CD-ROM or floppies, it will give me a machine check panic when it queries the SCSI controllers. I had posted this to the FreeBSD/alpha group when trying to run with the release candidate and I ended up loaning the card to Matthew Jacob. He told me he got it to work with his AlphaPC164 system and that I needed to either interrupt the boot after the kernel and mfsroot load and give the boot loader: set isp_mem_map=0xff or else build a custom kernel with: SCSI_ISP_PREFER_MEM_MAP=1 I obviously can't build a kernel if I can't install. If I interrupt the boot and give the boot loader the set isp_mem_map=0xff, it will get past the PCI device probe when it hits the SCSI controllers and it looks like it correctly identifies the system hardware but come to think of it, I never recall it reporting the devices on the SCSI channels -- it gets to the "waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle" and then the screen flashes to the red installation background and it immediately gives me the going nowhere can't find my init message and reboots. But I guess the installation is supposed to find a memory filesystem and so it shouldn't matter initially whether or not there are devices on the SCSI channels. It sounds to me like it can't find the memory filesystem. It certainly reports the ethernet, both scsi channels, both ide channels, the 2 ide disks and the ide cdrom. I also think I tried to boot from floppies with the 4.0 CD in the IDE cdrom drive and still got the panic and reboot. Dirk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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