Alpha PWS 433au (MiataGL) halts when booting installation CD, with "halt code = 5"

[Rob Dosogne]

Tim,

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

Tim McIntosh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This problem has been reported by others numerous times over the last 
> couple years; this is just a reminder that it still exists in 6.2R.  It 
> would be great if somebody could address the issue.
> 
> This system has no PCI cards installed and no SCSI devices installed.  
> The HDD is on IDE0 and the CDROM is on IDE1.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks!
> Tim
> 
> 
> (...)
> 
> FreeBSD/alpha SRM CD9660 boot, Revision 1.2
> (root at ds10.freebie.xs4all.nl, Fri Jan 12 17:01:15 UTC 2007)
> Memory: 65536 k
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> /boot/kernel/kernel data=0x6fed50+0x39a70 syms=[0x8+0x76578+0x8+0x61c05]
> -
> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
> Entering /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xfffffc00003523b0...
> 
> (...)
> 
> isp0: <Qlogic ISP 1020/1040 PCI SCSI Adapter> port 0x8000-0x80ff mem 
> 0x800100001
> isp0: interrupting at CIA irq 3
> isp0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> 
> halted CPU 0
> 
> halt code = 5
> HALT instruction executed
> PC = 0
> 
> (...)
>  

-- 

cheers!

Rob Dosogne
Systems Administrator
http://www.truthsolo.net/