From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 7 10:58:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Nowhere.Alien.BT.CO.UK (nowhere.alien.bt.co.uk [132.146.196.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A295B14D84 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 10:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jah@Nowhere.Alien.BT.CO.UK) Received: from localhost (jah@localhost) by Nowhere.Alien.BT.CO.UK (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00882 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 18:56:40 +0100 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 18:56:40 +0100 (BST) From: Jake Hill To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.2 on AlphaPC 164LX: kern.flp bootstrap problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please forgive what is probably a FAQ, but I can't find this mentioned anywhere. My apologies also if this is the wrong forum for this question, but I understand the -alpha list is dead now. I am itching to try FreeBSD on my Alpha board (a 164LX with 512Mb) but can't get past the kern.flp bootstrap. The output from SRM looks like: >>>boot dva0 (boot dva0.0.0.0.0 -flags 0) block 0 of dva0.0.0.0.0 is a valid boot block reading 14 blocks from dva0.0.0.0.0 bootstrap code read in base = 5e2000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1c00 initializing HWRPB at 2000 initializing page table at 5d4000 initializing machine state setting affinity to the primary CPU jumping to bootstrap code At this point the bootstrap hangs. There is some bogus-sounding floppy activity, but I don't think much is happening. I read an old thread somewhere that mentions motherboard configuration (i.e jumpering for the size and type of memory etc) but it's not clear to me that this is the same problem. Also, since I don't have any documentation for the board, I wouldn't know which jumpers to set anyway. ;-) Do I need to tell SRM anything more than just "boot dva0"? Many thanks for any help you can give. /.J To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message