Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:51:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Josh Emmons (skia)" <j-emmons@sjca.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Kernel problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961008205041.2709O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961007150212.25671A-200000@whorfin.sjca.edu>
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On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Josh Emmons (skia) wrote: > ok, upon booting thismorning, I tried to make the kernel again (after make > failed a few times last night I gave up). > > The new kernel seem to work with the following exceptions: > > 1) on boot I still have to specify the drive root is on like: > > 1:wd(2,a)/kernel > > I setup the drive in my config file like this > > config kernel root on wd2 > > and nothing different happens. It still looks on wd0 for root. Am I > modifying the wrong thing? I'm not sure this is a problem you can fix. You're trying to boot a disk out of range of the normal BIOS (unless you don't have a wd1). > 2) Sense I started booting the new kernel, I've been getting really wierd > page_faults at random times. There was also one incident where the shell > stopped responding and the message Out of Swap Space or something like > that kept popping up. Then all sorts of processes just started > terminating en mas.. Did I do something REALLY wrong? I don't know. Were you actually out of swap? Try running swapinfo at various times and keep an eye on the usage. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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