5.3 broken on AlphaPC 164LX

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:17:31PM +0200, Sven Petai wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 November 2004 12:00, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> hmm but are you using IDE or SCSI disks ?
> I'm closing in on the commit that broke it for me and currently it seems to be 
> something ATA related.
> 
SCSI.

> > > 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.
> >
> 
> maybe references to that possibility should be removed from loaders manpage 
> and developers handbook then...
> 
This was done in HEAD more than a month ago, I will MFC soon.


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