Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 09:54:49 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kent S. Gordon" <kgor@inetspace.com> To: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au Cc: obiwan@zeppelin.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading from 3.0-19970209-SNAP to -current Message-ID: <199704241454.JAA04350@chess.inetspace.com> In-Reply-To: <199704240621.QAA26785@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> (message from David Nugent on Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:21:15 %2B1000)
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>>>>> "davidn" == David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> writes:
>> Well, I was trying to find a link between Gary Clark's
>> hardware/software and mine, but there didn't seem to be
>> one. I've got a 6x86-133, 64megs using IDE, he was also using
>> IDE, so, I would hate think this was some massive bug in the
>> IDE code.
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).
scsi detection. My guess is that we are triggering a VM bug.
> Actually, this is my suspect as well. I don't even think NFS can
> be blamed here. It is set up as an NFS server, but it is rarely
> used. I can't imagine that a couple of inactive daemons might be
> triggering it (although stranger things have happened :-)).
> 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.
> Ok, it looks like only a coredump will tell, and right now
> that's a matter of waiting it out. :)
Kent S. Gordon
Senior Software Engineer
iNetSpace Co.
voice: (972)851-3494 fax:(972)702-0384 e-mail:kgor@inetspace.com
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