Alpha team, storm the front!

Mon Mar 28 10:20:10 PST 2005

Hello FreeBSD Alpha list,
I am new to this list and wanted to say hello and thanks for the great
project. I have been using FreeBSD for fun and production boxes for
several years now (on i386). I am working on getting a couple Alpha
boxes running right now.

I'm working on systems based on the PC164SX atx motherboard. Right now I
have 5.3 installed and running. I am connected over a serial console.
When it boots it stops and asks for "mountroot>" at which I hit enter to
abort manual input. (see attached log)
(is this a function of booting to serial console or single-user mode?)

It then askes for pathname of shell (hit enter again) which takes me to
single-user mode I believe.

Does this mean that the Alpha port is limited to boot into single-user
at the moment or is it something specific to my situation or serial
console? (this is the first time I have installed/connected to a FreeBSD
over serial console.)

I have attached a log of my box booting, anyone know what the following
in my SRM section means?

*** no timer interrupts on CPU 0 ***

Also, there is a series of "Unrecognized boot flag" lines in the FreeBSD
boot, should I be worried about them?

I am not a programmer, (as of today) so I am not really able to help
there, but I would like to work on documentation if needed, and I would
be happy to test anything on my Alpha hardware if requested.

Thanks for your time,

Roland Wells
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ef.ee.ed.probing hose 0, PCI
probing PCI-to-ISA bridge, bus 1
bus 0, slot 8, function 1 -- pka -- Cypress 82C693 IDE
bus 0, slot 8, function 2 -- pkb -- Cypress 82C693 IDE
ec.f4.eb.ea.e9.e8.e7.

Digital AlphaPC 164SX 533 MHz Console V5.1-4, Feb 12 1998 15:40:06

CPU 0 booting

(boot dka0.0.0.108.0 -flags root=nfsroot)
block 0 of dka0.0.0.108.0 is a valid boot block
reading 15 blocks from dka0.0.0.108.0
bootstrap code read in
base = 1dc000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1e00
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 1ce000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code
Loading /boot/loader
*** no timer interrupts on CPU 0 ***
*** keyboard not plugged in...
Console: SRM firmware console
VMS PAL rev: 0x1000500010114
OSF PAL rev: 0x1000600020116
Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded.

FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision 1.2
(root at ds10.wbnet, Fri Nov  5 04:07:44 UTC 2004)
Memory: 131072 k
*** keyboard not plugged in...
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf 
/boot/kernel/kernel data=0x5c4ce0+0x3d990 syms=[0x8+0x64ab8+0x8+0x53436]

Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.

Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 9 seconds... 
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 8 seconds... 
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...               

Entering /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xfffffc0000344c30...
Unrecognized boot flag 'r'.
Unrecognized boot flag 'o'.
Unrecognized boot flag 'o'.
Unrecognized boot flag 't'.
Unrecognized boot flag '='.
Unrecognized boot flag 'f'.
Unrecognized boot flag 'r'.
Unrecognized boot flag 'o'.
Unrecognized boot flag 'o'.
Unrecognized boot flag 't'.
Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov  5 11:30:09 UTC 2004
    root at ds10.wbnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
EB164
Digital AlphaPC 164SX 533 MHz, 531MHz
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
CPU: PCA56 (21164PC) major=9 minor=2 extensions=0x1<BWX>
OSF PAL rev: 0x1000600020116
real memory  = 132259840 (126 MB)
avail memory = 119963648 (114 MB)
cia0: <2117x Core Logic chipset>
cia0: Pyxis, pass 1
cia0: extended capabilities: 1<BWEN>
pcib0: <2117x PCI host bus adapter> on cia0
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 8.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Cypress 82C693 ATA controller> port 0x10000-0x1000f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 8.1 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata0: interrupting at ISA irq 14
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
ata1: interrupting at ISA irq 15
atapci1: <GENERIC ATA controller> port 0x377-0x37a,0x170-0x177 mem 0x82000000-0x8200ffff at device 8.2 on pci0
atapci1: failed: rid 0x20 is memory, requested 4
atapci1: unable to map interrupt
ata2: channel #0 on atapci1
device_attach: ata2 attach returned 6
ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0x82010000-0x82010fff at device 8.3 on pci0
ohci0: Could not allocate irq
device_attach: ohci0 attach returned 6
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
atkbd0: interrupting at ISA irq 1
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6
fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
mcclock0: <MC146818A real time clock> at port 0x70-0x71 on isa0
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x3bc-0x3c3 irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Polled port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
ppc0: interrupting at ISA irq 7
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A, console
sio0: interrupting at ISA irq 4
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 flags 0x80 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
sio1: interrupting at ISA irq 3
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
Timecounter "alpha" frequency 533146153 Hz quality 0
Timecounters tick every 0.976 msec
ad0: 2014MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL SE2.1A/API.0A00> [4092/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2
acd0: CDROM <LTN486S/YUS3> at ata1-master BIOSPIO

Manual root filesystem specification:
  <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
                       eg. ufs:/dev/da0a
  ?                  List valid disk boot devices
  <empty line>       Abort manual input

mountroot> 
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0a
Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: 
# mount -a
# mount
/dev/ad0a on / (ufs, local)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/ad0e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
# uname -a
FreeBSD  5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov  5 11:30:09 UTC 2004     root at ds10.wbnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  alpha
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