FreeBSD Boot on a Alpha 433

[Wilko Bulte]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:57:44PM -0500, Matt Juszczak wrote..
> It is 5.3-RELEASE
> show DEV and show CONF output a lot of information.  I'm able to do:
> 
> show DEV > out
> show CONF >> out
> cat out | more
> 
> and see the out file, but no idea how to get it to you.... (not that familiar with srm).

Oh.. that is in fact not too difficult: use a serial console.  Your machine
will happily talk 9600N81 on its serial port from that point on.

You can also do a >>> SET CONSOLE SERIAL from the VGA console, and after
an INIT your console will show up

Once you have the serial port connected to (say) another FreeBSD box
you can use something like tip to connect to the Alpha.  I assume
you know how to capture things with 'script' or something like that.

That output is of course quite easily email-able

> Exact message is haltcode=5, CPU0 halted.  Do you want the 4 character hex # too?
> 
> -Matt
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:03:58PM -0500, Matt Juszczak wrote..
> > 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I have a personal workstation (433) Digital Alpha and when I do "boot
> >> dka0" the kernel loads off the CD (I'm trying to install BSD).  It even
> >> gets passed hard drive detection but just dies with a haltcode.  Any
> >> ideas?
> > 
> > Some details would come in handy:
> > - what revision FreeBSD did you try?
> > - SHOW DEV from the >>> console prompt.
> > - SHOW CONF from the >>> console prompt.
> > - what is the exact haltcode etc message do you get?

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org
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