Subject: Re: AXPpci-33: kernel stack not valid halt...
To: None <Marc.Gutschner@Frankfurt.NetSurf.DE>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/05/1999 12:11:57
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:01:11 +0200 (CEST)
"Marc.Gutschner" <marc@Frankfurt.NetSurf.DE> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> >
> > This has been happening for over a year on the 8200.
> >
>
> Uh! This doesn't really sound encouraging :-/ In the meantime I've done
> some - uh - experiments with FreeBSD/alpha (boots all the way to sysinst)
> and (yuck!) Linux (boots up to the point where it tries to mount '/'). So
> now I'm pretty sure my problem is not (at least not obviously) hardware
> related...
The problem on the 8200 I believe to be a bug in changes that were
made to the DWLPx code. At least, I have seen not other evidence to
suggest otherwise.
> Currently I'm sucking down all available floppy images from different
> releases just to see if this makes any difference. I gave the 1.4.1
> floppies another try and here is a manual transcript of what happens:
>
> AXPpci Common Console X4.7-1860 built on Nov 1 1996 at 06:00:01
> >>> boot dva0
> [mumbling about finding a valib boot block etc.pp.]
>
> base=110000, image_start=0, image_bytes=1e00
> initializing HWRPB at 2000
> initializing page table at 102000
> initializing machine state
> setting affinity to the primary CPU
>
> Jumping to bootstrap code
>
> NetBSD/alpha 1.4.1 Primary Boot +
> +.
> Jumping to entry point
>
> halted CPU0
> halt code = 2
> kernel stack not valid halt
> PC=d6af60d3ca0794c0
...if that's really what the PC is, then something is Very Very Wrong.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>