Alpha team, storm the front!

[Roland Wells]

Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:20:54PM -0600, Roland Wells wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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?)
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>>It then askes for pathname of shell (hit enter again) which takes me to
>>single-user mode I believe.
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>>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.)
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>>I have attached a log of my box booting, anyone know what the following
>>in my SRM section means?
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>>*** no timer interrupts on CPU 0 ***
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>>Also, there is a series of "Unrecognized boot flag" lines in the FreeBSD
>>boot, should I be worried about them?
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>Yes. If you look closely, you see that 'n' and 's' are accepted
>as flags. The 'n' flag instructs the kernel to ask for the root
>file system and the 's' flag means to boot in single-user mode.
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>So, you get what you asked for :-)
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>*snip*
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>>(boot dka0.0.0.108.0 -flags root=nfsroot)
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>*snip*
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>>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'.
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>*snip*
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Haha, thanks for the tip, i should have been able to figure that out 
from the sequence of the flags! I guess they were on there from a 
previous owner...Set the srm boot_osflags to nothing and im all good 
now. Thanks again

Roland