Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 23:27:31 +0200 From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: BSD Mailinglisten-User <bsd@birdland.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1R works fine... 2.1-stable doesn't :-( Message-ID: <199604302127.AA25261@Sisyphos> In-Reply-To: BSD Mailinglisten-User <bsd@birdland.rhein-neckar.de> "2.1R works fine... 2.1-stable doesn't :-(" (Apr 30, 21:33)
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On Apr 30, 21:33, BSD Mailinglisten-User wrote: } Subject: 2.1R works fine... 2.1-stable doesn't :-( } Hi! } } I got a new machine today, a HP Netserver 5/133. It has a PCI/EISA } motherboard and a onboard AIC 7770 controller. I installed 2.1R using a } boot floppy and the CD without any problems. After installation I sup'ed } stable and did a "make world", again without problems. } } After that I tried to build a new kernel... took the GENERIC config file } and removed all unused lines. The newly build kernel didn't boot... it } couldn't mount root. Obviously, the probe for the ahc - device didn't } find the chip. I booted the old kernel.GENERIC and made a new (stable) } GENERIC... which failed to work, too. Please send VERBOSE boot messages. I need to know the values printed in all lines containing "pci" ... } I don't like the idea to remove the stable src-tree and replace it with } the old one from the CD, but I don't want to run a production system with } all this junk in the kernel... This may have been caused by a change in the PCI probe code (the probe FOR the PCI bus, not the scan for devices on it). If this is the case, I'll suggest a patch for you to try. But I need the verbose boot messages first ... Gruss, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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