5.3 broken on AlphaPC 164LX

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:16:10PM +0200, Sven Petai wrote:
> Hi I'm having some problems with getting 5.3 to work on
> a pcalpha (AlphaPC 164LX). This box was running 5.2.1
> until now without any problems. Basically it now panics
> in most cases right after trying to execute init,
> sometimes it just hangs there forever. 
> boot messages & panic & some ddb output is available @
> http://bsd.ee/~hadara/debug/pcalpha/pcalpha_panic_08.11.2004.txt
> kernel config is available at:
> http://bsd.ee/~hadara/debug/pcalpha/kernel.txt
> 
> any debug ideas ?
> 
I have AlphaPC 164SX which is basically the same h/w, and
it runs without any illness.

> if there aren't any better ones then I will just try to
> trace down the commit that caused it by cvsuping up/down
> but that will probably take at least a week...
> 
Can you check that it's not a bad memory issue?

> PS
> how can I tell kernel were it should dump core when it can't
> reach userland to use dumpdev command ?
> I tried various ways like setting dumpdev=/dev/ad2b from loader
> and tried to compile it into kernel, without much luck
> 
Good question.  Setting dump device early from loader(8) has
not been supported since 2002 when Poul-Henning re-implemented
it for GEOM.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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