From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 24 15:44:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA06697 for current-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 15:44:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeppelin.net (obiwan@zeppelin.net [206.170.177.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA06688 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 15:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obiwan@localhost) by zeppelin.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA11131; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 15:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199704241454.JAA04350@chess.inetspace.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 15:43:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Josh Howard To: "Kent S. Gordon" Subject: Re: Upgrading from 3.0-19970209-SNAP to -current Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 24-Apr-97 Kent S. Gordon wrote: >>>>>> "davidn" == David Nugent writes: >I have Cyrix 596-100, 16MB, bustek 445 and New kernel's do not >successfully boot (die in detection of boot device. Message vary with >-current date and kernel options. Normally just a hang, but I have >seen disk detected as unknown device. I tried tracing it using DDB >but was unsuccesfully in finding anything useful). Well, these problems we're suffering from seem to leave no message, no kernel problems that are obvious, etc. Not sure where your problem lies.. > >scsi detection. My guess is that we are triggering a VM bug. > > > It might even be a bug that's been there all along, but the > > lite2 merges have brought it to light. > > > Come to think of it, all of the other -current machines I run > > and work fine are scsi, or in one case, mostly scsi - aha and > > aic types. Hmm. >I have a PP-180, 64MB, mainly ide system that works great. > Well, the newest theory might be pointing towards pppd (or even ijppp), do you run either of those on that machine? > >Kent S. Gordon >Senior Software Engineer >iNetSpace Co. >voice: (972)851-3494 fax:(972)702-0384 e-mail:kgor@inetspace.com > --- Josh Howard (obiwan@zeppelin.net) Illinois isn't exactly the land that God forgot -- it's more like the land He's trying to ignore.