GENERIC doesn't boot AlphaServer 1000

[Wilko Bulte]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:12:42PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote..
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:01:31PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:30:20AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote..
> > > 
> > > My Alphaserver 1000 doesn't like a GENERIC kernel:
> > > 
> > > de0: <Digital 21040 Ethernet> port 0x10000-0x1007f mem 0x81301000-0x8130107f irq
> > >  3 at device 12.0 on pci0
> > > de0: Reserved 0x80 bytes for rid 0x14 type 3 at 0x81301000
> > > de0: interrupting at CIA irq 3
> > > de0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> > > de0: DEC 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.4
> > > de0: bpf attached
> > > de0: Ethernet address: 00:00:f8:21:89:2f
> > > de0: if_start running deferred for Giant
> > > fxp0: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0x10080-0x100bf mem 0x81300000-0x81300
> > > fff,0x81100000-0x811fffff irq 5 at device 13.0 on pci0
> > > fxp0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0x81300000
> > > fxp0: using memory space register mapping
> > > fxp0: PCI IDs: 8086 1229 8086 000c 0008
> > > fxp0: Dynamic Standby mode is disabled
> > > miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
> > > inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
> > > inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> > > fxp0: bpf attached
> > > fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:d0:b7:49:e6:c9
> > > fxp0: interrupting at CIA irq 5
> > > fxp0: [MPSAFE]
> > > 
> > > halted CPU 0
> > > 
> > > halt code = 7
> > > machine check while in PAL mode
> > > PC = 18100           
> 
> I think we dropped the ball with the number of EISA slots on AS1000.
> 
> > DS10 on booting the latest SNAP CD I produced:
> > 
> > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> > Timecounter "alpha" frequency 616519676 Hz quality 800
> > Timecounters tick every 0.976 msec
> > Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> > md0: Preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> 4423680 bytes at 0xfffffc00009fb128
> > acd0: CDROM <CD-224E/9.9A> at ata0-master PIO4
> > ad0: 39093MB <FUJITSU MPG3409AH E C3C9> at ata1-master UDMA33
> > da0 at isp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> > da0: <COMPAQ AD009322B9 3A07> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
> > da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> > Enabled
> > da0: 8678MB (17773500 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
> > 
> > fatal kernel trap:
> > 
> >     trap entry     = 0x4 (unaligned access fault)
> >     cpuid          = 0
> >     faulting va    = 0xfffffc00010d7dc2
> >     opcode         = 0x28
> >     register       = 0x1
> >     pc             = 0xfffffc00004c732c
> >     ra             = 0xfffffc00004c7598
> >     sp             = 0xfffffe001a35dbd0
> >     curthread      = 0xfffffc003eac1500
> >         pid = 2, comm = g_event
> > 
> > [thread pid 2 tid 100003 ]
> > Stopped at      is_pmbr+0x4c:   and     t0,#0xff,t0
> > <t0=0xfffffc00010d7dbe>
> > db> 
> > 
> > 164SX allows an install from the SNAP, but hangs after printing
> > Trying /sbin/init :(
> 
> >From the function name it sounds like MBR probing.
> Does this disk have an i386 or Linux history?

Hm, most likely it has last been in a RAID array.  Data contents are
fully unknown to me.

> No reason to panic, but this would explain why it happens on this
> specific machine.
> AFAIK MBR probing is GEOM, so I guess you've mailed the right person :)

Hm hm.. ;)

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org