Subject: Re: AXPpci-33: kernel stack not valid halt...
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/05/1999 12:19:10
On 5 Oct 1999, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:

> Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:01:11 +0200 (CEST) 
> >  "Marc.Gutschner" <marc@Frankfurt.NetSurf.DE> wrote:
> > 
> >  > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> >  > 
> >  > > 
> >  > > This has been happening for over a  year on the 8200.
> >  > > 
> >  > 
> >  > Uh! This doesn't really sound encouraging :-/ In the meantime I've done
> >  > some - uh - experiments with FreeBSD/alpha (boots all the way to sysinst)
> >  > and (yuck!) Linux (boots up to the point where it tries to mount '/'). So
> >  > now I'm pretty sure my problem is not (at least not obviously) hardware
> >  > related...
> > 
> > The problem on the 8200 I believe to be a bug in changes that were
> > made to the DWLPx code.  At least, I have seen not other evidence to
> > suggest otherwise.
> 
> Which, to point out the obvious, should be completely unrelated to any
> problems that happen to occur when the boot blocks are _loading a
> kernel_.
> 
> Of course, it apparently _isn't_ obvious, because Matt somehow
> associated them...

I said I was Sorry...