Subject: Re: DS10 server wierdness - Help?
To: bob smith <sfmc68@bellatlantic.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/14/2003 22:24:39
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 12:55:40PM -0400, bob smith wrote:
> Background - two DS10s, both now exhibit the same problem sort of.
> Attempting to run 1.6 release, straight off the release, using a 
> working, valid ISO image. Built a bunch of 1.6 alphas of various type 
> from this image. Now.....
> Systems run just fine from CD with generic kernel.  I can mount the 
> drive, run the network, ftp the specific config files in (rc., hosts, 
> resolv, etc that I put together for each specific system on another box).
> 
> Config - standard DS10 466MHZ (264 cpu), 512MB, no video, ide cdrom 
> (compaq), Both systems were running Freebad, one with an IBM Ultra 
> scsidrive, 9GB, the other wit hthe RZ2....9 GB drive, serial console 
> (vt32). Standard PCI scsi controller, 68 pin cable, one drive one the 
> cable, terminator on the last connector of the cable (one box has a 
> cable with 8 spitots, one has a cable with 2 spigots)
> 
> Install notes - using the install tools - running thru the whole 
> process, formatting the drive as part of the process, setting up 3 (not 
> couting C) partitions: root (a - 300MB), swap (b - 600MB), usr (d, bout 
> 8GB).
> 
> Symptom: system 1 - built successfully from iso image, booted hard 
> drive, dka0, it starts to boot, gets thru the boot messages until it 
> gets to the message that prints out the day/date/time. Then it hangs 
> after it prints out the day/date/time.
> 
> System 2 - essentially same deal, but hung when printing out file system 
> type.
> System 2, redid the install with new drive, redid partitions (a,b, d) as 
>  300MB, 600MB, and the rest for usr) After this the system hangs just 
> like the first one - prints out day.date/time, and hangs.
> 
> I figure it is somethign I am doing - any nints appreciated.

Can you enter ddb at this point ? Can you get a stack trace ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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