10 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-alphaRe: New bootblocks| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| pa...@originative.co.uk | Mar 15, 1999 4:47 am | |
| Thomas Valentino Crimi | Mar 15, 1999 7:26 am | |
| pa...@originative.co.uk | Mar 15, 1999 7:41 am | |
| Andrew Gallatin | Mar 15, 1999 7:42 am | |
| Thomas Valentino Crimi | Mar 15, 1999 11:11 am | |
| Doug Rabson | Mar 15, 1999 5:29 pm | |
| William Woods | Mar 15, 1999 6:01 pm | |
| Talbot NEIL | Mar 15, 1999 7:24 pm | |
| Doug Rabson | Mar 18, 1999 3:09 am | |
| Thomas Valentino Crimi | Mar 18, 1999 11:07 am |
| Subject: | Re: New bootblocks | |
|---|---|---|
| From: | Andrew Gallatin (gall...@cs.duke.edu) | |
| Date: | Mar 15, 1999 7:42:44 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-alpha | |
Thomas Valentino Crimi writes:
Excerpts from FreeBSD-Alpha: 15-Mar-99 New bootblocks by pa...@originative.co.uk
halt code = 2 kernel stack not valid halt PC = 184ec
I had this same problem, too, making it worse was that I had played around with my boot.conf and guess what, unload was halting (in the older bootblocks, wasn't this recently fixed?)
One good replacement to fixit disks I found was that the emergecy shell, while lacking ls (use echo *) did have ifconfig, ppp and mount_nfs if you happen to have a machine nearby to stick an alpha dist on for binaries. The way I got my machine to boot doens't seem like more than luck (replaced bootblocks and booted of an old kernel). Just wanted to share the fixit trick for all who may come to need it.
In addition to the bootblocks, there's also some breakage in revision 1.24 of kern/kern_lock.c which causes alphas to crash in strange ways just after they print the copyright & before they size memory.
I've pointed this out to Julian, and he committed a fix last night. Make sure that you have the latest revision of kern_lock.c. If, for whatever reason, you cannot update your sources the fix was:
diff -u -b -B -c -r1.24 kern_lock.c *** kern_lock.c 1999/03/12 03:09:29 1.24 --- kern_lock.c 1999/03/15 00:43:37 *************** *** 215,221 **** * lock itself ). */ if (lkp->lk_lockholder != pid) { ! if (p->p_flag & P_DEADLKTREAT) { error = acquire( lkp, extflags, --- 215,221 ---- * lock itself ). */ if (lkp->lk_lockholder != pid) { ! if (p && (p->p_flag & P_DEADLKTREAT)) { error = acquire( lkp, extflags,
Cheers,
Drew
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