Re: (was Re: HEADS UP! MAJOR change to FreeBSD/sparc64) Boot failure on rebuild

From: Wes Peters (wes_at_softweyr.com)
Date: 03/14/04

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To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>

    On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 02:18:25 -0500 Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
    alleged:

    > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:10:16PM -0800, Wes Peters wrote:
    >
    > > Ok, I bumped into this problem too. Now when I try to boot my previous
    > > kernel I get:
    > >
    > > Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
    > > OK unload kernel
    > > OK load /boot/kernel.old/kernel
    > > /boot/kernel.old/kernel data=0x2bbc08+0x3c568
    > > syms=[0x8+0x4ad18+0x8+0x3d2b2] OK boot
    > > nothing to autoload yet.
    > > jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0040000.
    > > 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 5.2-CURRENT #1: Wed Feb 18 22:58:52 PST 2004
    > > rootb@sparky.softweyr.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SPARKY
    > > panic: trap: fast data access mmu miss
    > > at line 364 in file /usr/src/sys/sparc64/sparc64/trap.c
    > > Uptime: 1s
    > >
    > > Not good. Time to burn a 5.2.1 CD?
    >
    > Ouch. I'm having trouble figuring out why the old kernel won't boot.
    > As Kris said someone has suggested this is similar to the problem we
    > had with make_dev() on the Alphas. That's certainly possible but if
    > that kernel had been running before I'm not so sure that's the problem,
    > I don't understand how the kernel would have been able to run before if
    > it's really the make_dev() issue.
    >
    > You might want to give the ISO in snapshots/sparc64 on the mirror
    > sites a try instead of the 5.2.1 CD, especially if you had already
    > made the leap to 64-bit time_t. I was in the process of trying to
    > create a newer version of that when I came across the problem with
    > the root drive not being mountable. Now that it's fixed I'm trying
    > again but it will be a day or so before that's ready (if all goes
    > well this time :-).
    >
    > Can you let us know what hardware you have? I'm most interested in
    > general model (e.g. Ultra-30?) and whether it has a graphical console
    > that's supposed to work (e.g. Creator-3D?). If it does have the
    > graphical console as a last resort you could try detaching the keyboard
    > and connecting a serial console to see if you can coax it into booting
    > the older kernel that way. I haven't been having problems with serial
    > console machines at all recently...

    Ultra-5 with 333MHz cpu module, (currently not) booting on serial console.
    I have a keyboard and mouse, but they are currently resting in the closet
    nearby. The kernel config is GENERIC with features I don't have hacked out;
    nothing esoteric at all. I do usually remove and _ROOT options

    I'll snag the latest snapshot and try that. 

    -- 
        Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters                                               wes@softweyr.com
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