Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:27:46 +1100 From: matti k <matti.k@bigpond.net.au> To: Tim McIntosh <tmcintos@avalon.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha PWS 433au (MiataGL) halts when booting installation CD, with "halt code = 5" Message-ID: <20070118222746.096cdd73@platypus.freebsd.home> In-Reply-To: <B507CE56-627E-413E-A9A9-0B88570D87CC@avalon.net> References: <88F3FB25-A363-4E91-A637-213116F58356@avalon.net> <45AE57A6.1040104@truthsolo.net> <B507CE56-627E-413E-A9A9-0B88570D87CC@avalon.net>
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:49:56 -0600 Tim McIntosh <tmcintos@avalon.net> wrote: > On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Rob Dosogne wrote: > > Tim McIntosh wrote: > >> I'm guessing the issue described in the following post may be the > >> cause of the problem? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd- > >> alpha/2005-April/002294.html > >> The thing is, the QLogic SCSI controller is built-in on this > >> system, so there's no way to put it in front of the PCI-PCI > >> bridge. Is there any way to disable it, or disable the device > >> driver, as a work-around? > > > > I think you can disable the isp driver at the loader: > > > > set hint.isp.0.disable="1" > > > > although I have not tried this on my own machine yet. After > > installing > > you could recompile the kernel without isp or leave the disable > > line in > > your device.hints > > Well, that appears to have disabled the driver, but the problem > persists. Maybe the driver is not the cause, after all? > > Note that I now have a Mach64 graphics card installed in a 64-bit > slot. I don't think that's having any effect on this problem, but > I'll try it again without the graphics card when I get a chance. I have the same hardware except using SCSI hard drive and Matrox Millenium video card, had the same problem as you have described. I've just gotten a 6.2-R CD and did some testing. I get the same errors when the video card is plugged into either of the two 64-bit slots. Works fine in the 32-bit slots. I also have 128MB of memory (want more!) but I don't think this is an issue in regards to the halt errors. Lastly, I have a problem with web pages being rendered incorrectly when scrolling but think this may be a faulty video card as it was marked defective (i'm guessing for a reason). Cheers, Matti
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