Hello,
I upgraded the OS from 4.0D to 4.0E without
errors and everything seemed to work fine.
The newbuilt kernel loaded and i got the
login prompt.
I did however forgot to plug the ethernet-cable
and because i had to move the box and put "the
roof" on i halted the system.
I put the whole thing together and turned the
machine on... this happened:
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Loading vmunix ...
Loading at 0xfffffc0000230000
Current PAL Revision <0x1000000010114>
Switching to OSF PALcode Succeeded
New PAL Revision <0x1000000020116>
Sizes:
text = 3391824
data = 547920
bss = 1434656
Starting at 0xfffffc00004609a0
Alpha boot: available memory from 0xf7a000 to 0x1ff16000
Digital UNIX V4.0E (Rev. 1091); Fri Nov 5 21:12:57 EET 1999
physical memory = 512.00 megabytes.
panic (cpu 0): get_first_free: no free memory!
DUMP: No primary swap, no explicit dumpdev.
Nowhere to put header, giving up.
halted CPU 0
And it tried to reboot with the same result...
I tried the CD-rom boot with a 4.0B-version
which resulted in this...
Alpha boot: available memory from 0x1440000 to 0x1ff16000
Digital UNIX V4.0E (Rev. 1091); Fri Nov 13 14:10:29 EST 1998
physical memory = 512.00 megabytes.
available memory = 491.75 megabytes.
using 652 buffers containing 5.09 megabytes of memory
emx: dynamic addressing enabled
Firmware revision: 7.0
PALcode: Digital UNIX version 1.22
Digital AlphaStation 500/333
contig_malloc: not enough aligned node memory
pmr 0: 98 contiguous pages available
panic (cpu 0): contig_malloc of in-memory sg table failed
DUMP: No primary swap, no explicit dumpdev.
Nowhere to put header, giving up.
halted CPU 0
I tried to change the memory modules and when
I took away all from the B-bank it started to work:
Loading vmunix ...
Loading at 0xfffffc0000230000
Current PAL Revision <0x1000000010114>
Switching to OSF PALcode Succeeded
New PAL Revision <0x1000000020116>
Sizes:
text = 3391824
data = 547920
bss = 1434656
Starting at 0xfffffc00004609a0
Alpha boot: available memory from 0xb6a000 to 0xff16000
Digital UNIX V4.0E (Rev. 1091); Fri Nov 5 21:12:57 EET 1999
physical memory = 256.00 megabytes.
available memory = 243.98 megabytes.
using 974 buffers containing 7.60 megabytes of memory
Firmware revision: 7.0
PALcode: Digital UNIX version 1.22
Digital AlphaStation 500/333
pci0 at nexus
tu0: DECchip 21040: Revision: 2.4
tu0 at pci0 slot 6
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There were nothing wrong with the memory modules
themselves. Looks like something went wrong with
the bank? But why? And What? And how? Anybody
seen this?
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Tony Lindström * System Manager * Tekla Oy
tel:+358 9 887 9441 gsm:+358 40 762 0768
http://www.iki.fi/tonyk/ mailto:tonyk_at_iki.fi
Received on Fri Nov 05 1999 - 22:03:28 NZDT