6.0 on Alpha

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 25 August 2004 06:36 am, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> PWS 600au, yesterday's sources.  The new loader runs fine, but the new
> kernel won't boot with either the old or the new loader.
>
> [old loader, new kernel]
>
> > FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision 1.2
> > (des at dsa.des.no, Mon May 24 12:46:21 CEST 2004)
> > Memory: 262144 k
> > Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> > /boot/dsa/kernel data=0x317d80+0x30140 syms=[0x8+0x43fe0+0x8+0x3899d]
> >
> > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> > Booting [/boot/dsa/kernel] in 9 seconds...
> >
> > Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
> > OK boot -s
> > Entering /boot/dsa/kernel at 0xfffffc0000338780...
> > unexpected exception/interrupt through vector 420
> > [...]
>
> [new loader, new kernel]
>
> > FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision 1.2
> > (des at dsa.des.no, Wed Aug 25 03:03:37 CEST 2004)
> > Memory: 262144 k
> > Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> > /boot/dsa/kernel data=0x317d80+0x30140 syms=[0x8+0x43fe0+0x8+0x3899d]
> >
> > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> > Booting [/boot/dsa/kernel] in 9 seconds...
> >
> > Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
> > OK boot -s
> > Entering /boot/dsa/kernel at 0xfffffc0000338780...
> > unexpected exception/interrupt through vector 420
> > [...]
>
> The old kernel (from late May) boots fine with both the old and the
> new loader.
>
> Kernel config and complete logs available upon request.

What comes after the '420' message, does it just repeat forever?

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