Re: alpha multia boot problems

[Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Igor Grabin wrote:

> Hiya,
> 
> short disclaimer: I know that multias suck. I've also gone all the way
> through its heat death, and this is not the case. Its battery is dead,
> and will stay like that.
> Now, down to the case.
> 
> trying to boot floppy31.fs from today's snapshot over serial console...
> 
> Entering bsd at 0xfffffc0000230000...
> Unrecognized boot flag '0'.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>         The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1995-2002 OpenBSD. All rights reserved.  http://www.OpenBSD.org
> 
> OpenBSD 3.1-beta (RAMDISK) #15: Sat Mar 23 06:56:28 MST 2002
>     deraadt@alpha.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/RAMDISK
> (PCI ISA), 167MHz
> 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> total memory = 25165824 (24576K)
> (2424832 reserved for PROM, 22740992 used by OpenBSD)
> avail memory = 15237120 (14880K)
> using 277 buffers containing 2269184 bytes (2216K) of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), LCA-2 (21066 pass 2)
> lca0 at mainbus0
> pci0 at lca0 bus 0
> vendor 0x20d0 product 0x1fc2 (unknown class 0x1f, subclass 0xc2, rev 0xd0) at pd
> [lotta lines exactly like this]
> vendor 0x20d0 product 0x1fc2 (unknown class 0x1f, subclass 0xc2, rev 0xd0) at pdsiop0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 vendor 0x1000 product 0x0001 rev 0x01: isa irq 11scsibus0 at siop0: 8 targets
> siop0: target 0 now using 8 bit async xfers
> sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, MK2326FB, A15B> SCSI1 0/direct fixed
> sd0: 324MB, 969 cyl, 14 head, 49 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 665388 sec total
> sio0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 vendor 0x8086 product 0x0484 rev 0x03
> de0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 vendor 0x1011 product 0x0002 rev 0x23: isa irq 15
> de0: DEC 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 address 08:00:2b:e2:ca:82
> vendor 0x0001 product 0x0000 (class prehistoric, subclass miscellaneous, rev 0xd
> vendor 0x20d0 product 0x1fc2 (unknown class 0x1f, subclass 0xc2, rev 0xd0) at pd
> vendor 0x20d0 product 0x1fc2 (unknown class 0x1f, subclass 0xc2, rev 0xd0) at p
> [again lotta lines exactly like this]
> tga0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 vendor 0x1011 product 0x0004 rev 0x02: DC21030 s2tga0: 1024 x 768, 8bpp, Bt485 RAMDAC
> tga0: interrupting at isa irq 10
> wsdisplay0 at tga0
> vendor 0x20d0 product 0x1fc2 (unknown class 0x1f, subclass 0xc2, rev 0xd0) at pd
> [well, you've guessed it. them again :)]
> sa0 at sio0
> com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> com0: console
> com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
> mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70/2: mc146818 or compatible
> stray isa irq 3
> stray isa irq 4
> WARNING: can't figure what device matches ""
> root on rd0a swap on rd0b
> rd0: fixed, 5744 blocks
> rootdev=0x600 rrootdev=0x1c00 rawdev=0x1c02
> WARNING: preposterous clock chip time
>  -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
> erase ^?, werasestray isa irq 4
> de0: autosense failed: cable problem?
> 
> ...and it hangs dead. Yes, network cable is unplugged. Plugging it in
> doesn't make this thing look more alive.
> floppy26.fs boots fine, freebsd 4.5-release boots, but fails to use
> the network, netbsd 1.4.2 boots, netbsd
> 1.5-whatever_latest_release_they_have hangs exactly like above.
> 
> any hints? :)
> -- 
> Igor Grabin, Incosoft Technical Support

have you tried disabling de at startup, this should allow the dc driver to
load.

I had a similiar problem with an Digital PW433 and disabling de did the
trick.

no guarantee's of course since I've only seen pictures of Multia's.