Subject: Re: Installing 1.5 on a DS10
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/07/2001 20:56:12
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:06:34PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> When I try and boot NetBSD 1.5 on a DS10, I get a panic("trap") as
> indicted below (this is from the install kernel, booting off a CD
> I made myself - but it is just the NetBSD-1.5 files, and alpha boot
> blocks).   This (same CD) has previously successfully installed on
> a PC164, so I think the CD itself is OK.
> 
> This is the dmesg, as far as it gets...  (since this is an install
> kernel, it has no symtab, or anything like that).
> 
> Anyone have any idea what may be causing this crash?  (It may be
> siop driver related).    I'm a long way away from the system at
> the minute, so I am not going to be able to do much in the way of
> testing changed code though (would need to get someone to stick
> a blank CD in my burner one day, then make a new CD for it, then
> get them to move it to the CD on this system nest day, then test it...)
> 
> But if a fix is in -current already, or a likely fix is known,
> I can probably try it.

I don't rememver seeing this, but you may want to try a kernel from
the 1.5 branch; the siop driver has been updated.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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