Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:05:13 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@freebsd.org>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2/alpha successes/failures Message-ID: <20040902080513.GT423@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040901095118.GA64367@freebie.xs4all.nl> 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>
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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 </boot/mfsroot> 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
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