Re: can't reboot after running a 5.0 kernel

[Dustin Marquess <dmarquess%gmail.com@localhost>]

I have, but it's been a while.  I moved my Alpha to -current/HEAD, as
it's the only one that can reliably do SMP on Alpha.  The only other
problem I ran into is eventually if the machine doesn't get cleanly
unmounted, it'll refuse to mount the drive saying that it's dirty
(even using WAPBL), and running fsck to fix that will move almost
everything on the drive to lost+found.  It does mount cleanly after
that though :).  I haven't opened a PR on it yet, since I'm not sure
if it's a hardware problem, some kind of interaction between WAPBL and
SMP on Alpha, or what.

-Dustin

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Chuck Cranor <chuck%ece.cmu.edu@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 06:25:42PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>> > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2010/08/04/msg002091.html and
>> Seems reasonable. Commit?
>
> Yeah, I'm for it.   It is a step forward.   I wonder why David Young
> didn't push it through?
>
>
> But I'm still having bad kernel issues with the alpha:
>
> netbsd 5.0: kernel boots multiuser, but eventually processes start
>            hanging and the load goes up.
>
> netbsd 5.0.2_PATCH, _and_
> netbsd 5.1: kernel hangs hard booting multiuser... it gets to
>            "Starting named." and then hangs.   Sending a break
>            to the console has no effect (can't get DDB, have to
>            power cycle).
>
> HEAD: on a whim I just tried a HEAD kernel.   it booted multiuser, but
>      I didn't do anything beyond that.
>
>
> I played a bit with CVS, and the hard hang I'm seeing with 5.0.2 and
> 5.1 was introduced to the netbsd-5 branch some time between 01-May-09
> and 01-Jul-09.
>
>
> Has anyone successfully booted a 5.1 kernel on the alpha?
>
>
> chuck
>
> here are the kernel's I tried (in order, as above):
>
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.0/alpha/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.gz
> http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-5-0/201101252100Z/alpha/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.gz
> http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-5-1/201101261300Z/alpha/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.gz
> http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201101271500Z/alpha/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.gz
>