Re: Random hangs on 5.0 on R5000 Challenge S

[George Harvey <fr30%dial.pipex.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:21:02 -0400
Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

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> Hello,
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> On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:21 PM, George Harvey wrote:
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> > No, the system hangs completely before it gets to the login prompt.
> > However, I can drop into ddb on the console.
> 
> So it hangs when starting userland. Strange.
> My R5k/150MHz/512kB Indy works just fine, I don't have the right  
> cables to try booting it with a seial console though. That said, I  
> dimly remember issues with serial console on some SGI machines, not  
> sure if it was IP2x or something else though.

I've got a R5000/150 Indy here as well so I tried a fresh install of 5.0
on that. The first attempt completed installing all the sets and got to
the stage of setting the root password then hung. On rebooting, the root
and usr partitions were hopelessly corrupt so I did a re-install and
this time skipped setting the password. The second install completed
normally but when I rebooted it hung while trying to start the network.
On the next reboot it hung after the 'root file system type' line.

From the boot messages, my R5000/150 box has:

MIPS R5000 CPU (0x2310) Rev. 1.0 with built-in FPU Rev. 1.0
32KB/32B 2-way set-associative L1 Instruction cache, 48 TLB entries
32KB/32B 2-way set-associative write-back L1 Data cache
512KB/32B direct-mapped write-through L2 data cache

How does that compare with yours?

George


> have fun
> Michael
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