5.2.1 on a Cabriolet?

[Rob B]

Michael DeLisle wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2004, at 11:20 PM, Rob B wrote:
> 
>>
>> I was never able to get anything higher that 5.1-RELEASE booting on 
>> this box
>>
>> I wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>> jumping to bootstrap code
>> loading /boot/loader
>> |
>> halted CPU 0
>>
>> halt code = 2
>> kernel stack not valid halt
>> PC = 7000000f0000
>> boot failure
>>
>> There doesn't appear to be a /boot/loader.old that I can load either.
>>
>> I'm in the process of trying John Baldwins floppies - see recent 
>> postings on that
>>
>> cheers,
>> Rob
> 
> 
> 
>     FWIW, I'm currently running 5.2.1 on a Cabriolet:
> (from dmesg)
> 
> FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1: Fri Feb 27 04:16:45 EST 2004
>     root at alpha-trion.nexthop.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ALPHA-TRION
> Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xfffffc0000770000.
> EB64+
> Digital AlphaPC 64 274 MHz, 274MHz
> 
>     I was able to install 5.2-release (via cdrom) and cvsup to 
> 5.2.1-release successfully.
> 
>     I had some problems running 5.2 as a bridging firewall, the box 
> would randomly reboot on me from time to time.  I never troubleshot the 
> issue, and haven't tried the bridging firewall again with 5.2.1.
> 
>     5.2.1 however has been stable enough to run my squid proxy, bind9, 
> and various scripts.

I've installed 5.0-BETA as it's all that would boot from floppies, I've 
got my source at 5.2.1-RELEASE and I'm (slowly) building world and a new 
kernel now.  We'll see what happens.

cheers,
Rob

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