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Subject: Re: -current not booting 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 May 1996 00:01:06 MST."
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Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 10:52:57 +0000
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > It may also be something to do with phk's changes to locore.s.  I
> > don't know, there are so many variables!  Would it be possible for you
> > to grab a copy of the CVS tree and roll back /sys until you get a
> > working kernel again?  That would definitely help us to figure out
> > *when* the problem crept in.
> 
> I too ran into the kernel boot problem.  Building a GENERIC
> kernel works fine.  Building based on my LOCAL definition produces
> a kernel which reboots just after loading the kernel.
> 
> I re'suped and built again.  Still rebooted.
> 
> I 'cp LOCAL LOCAL.bak', 'cp GENERIC LOCAL', then edited the new LOCAL
> adding my original LOCAL specific stuff back in.

Are you saying that the two files were identical (disregarding comments !)
and once kernel doesn't work ?

I have a hard time beliving that.

I guess if you can tell us the difference we can find the bug ?

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