AC-0.9 Testing Results (was: Re: Alpha Core ISO Images)

[geerten]

Today I supported my local computer store: 5 euros for an IDE cable must be 
a good deal for them I guess, but OK, I can now boot into the AC-0.9 install.
Next obstacle is disk druid telling me I will not be able to boot from SRM 
because there's a PC-style partiontable on the disk (which was in a PC 
before). But it doesn't provide a way to change to BSD-style. Calls himself 
a druid, but I'll have to do the wizardry myself.. dd should do the trick: 
I'll try that next.

Downside: I cannot boot into the Tru64 install from this IDE drive ??

>panic (cpu 0): init_rootdev: boot device translation failed
>
>DUMP: Warning: no disk available for dump.
>
>DUMP: first crash dump failed: attempting memory dump...
>DUMP: compressing 22648KB into 217879KB memory...
>DUMP:  Starting Address      Ending Address   Size(MB)
>DUMP: ------------------   ------------------ --------
>DUMP: 0xfffffc000fd56000 - 0xfffffc000ff15fef 1.7 (indicator)
>DUMP: Writing data... [3MB]
>DUMP: crash dump complete.

I still can boot into the old install though, and then there's mail:

>You have new mail.
># mail
> From root Mon Oct 18 21:32:41 2004
>Received: by trudy.geerten id VAA00315; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:32:40 +0200 (CEST)
>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:32:40 +0200 (CEST)
>From: system PRIVILEGED account <root at trudy.geerten>
>Message-Id: <200410181932.VAA00315 at trudy.geerten>
>Subject: EVM ALERT [700]: System panic: panic (cpu 0): init_rootdev: boot 
>device
>  translation failed
>
>======================= Binary Error Log event =======================
>EVM event name: sys.unix.binlog.op.panic._savecore.True
>
>     Binary error log events are posted through the binlogd daemon, and
>     stored in the binary error log file, /var/adm/binary.errlog.  This
>     event is posted by kernel components as part of the system panic
>     process.
>
>     Action: Contact your service provider.
>
>======================================================================
>
>Formatted Message:
>     System panic: panic (cpu 0): init_rootdev: boot device translation failed
>
>Event Data Items:
>     Event Name        : sys.unix.binlog.op.panic._savecore.True
>     Priority          : 700
>     PID               : 307
>     PPID              : 1
>     Event Id          : 25
>     Timestamp         : 18-Oct-2004 21:32:38
>     Host Name         : trudy
>     User Name         : root
>     Format            : System panic: $message
>     Reference         : cat:evmexp.cat:300
>
>Variable Items:
>     subid_class (INT32) = 302
>     message (STRING) = "panic (cpu 0): init_rootdev: boot device translation
>                         failed"
>     binlog_event (OPAQUE) = [OPAQUE VALUE: 136 bytes]
>     _savecore (BOOLEAN) = True
>
>============================ Translation =============================
>binlogshow: DECevent is not available on this system.
>binlogshow: DECevent is required to translate old-format events.
>======================================================================