Subject: Trouble booting on Multia
To: None <port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/20/1998 16:20:24
I'm having trouble booting NetBSD on a recently purchased DEC Multia
/w 64MB RAM and 4GB external HD.  Booting NetBSD 1.3 worked just fine
for about a week, but then refused to work quite suddenly.  At the SRM
console, when I type:

	boot dka100

to boot off of the bootable partition of the extranal HD, or

	boot dva0

to boot off of the floppy disk, I get the following error:

	Processor correctable error through vector 00000063.
	ESP: E7B4DAE900000213		FAR: E7B4DAE900088E00
	STAT0: 0000000200000002		STAT1: 0000006400000064
	BCTAG: 0000000000000000

	Processor correctable error through vector 00000063.
	ESP: 6FF4FAF900000213		FAR: 6FF4FAF9000691A8
	STAT0: 0000000200000002		STAT1: 0000006400000064
	BCTAG: 0000000000000000

which repeats endlessly.  I tried swapping the two positions of the
two 32MB SIMMs to see if one of the SIMMs was bad, but the problem
persists.  There was no new hardware added to the machine between the
time that the machine was working fine and the time that it suddenly
stopped booting.
	Does anyone have a guess at what the problem might be?

Thanks,
--
   Johnny C. Lam
   Department of Statistics             lamj@stat.cmu.edu
   Carnegie Mellon University           http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/

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