Re: [9fans] fresh compiled kernels no longer boot..?

[jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]

On Sun Jan 25 18:45:41 EST 2004, Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl wrote:
> i wrote:
> > jmk wrote:
> > > On Sun Jan 25 17:38:41 EST 2004, presotto@closedmind.org wrote:
> > > > The 486 problems shouldn't bother a K6 which is a pentium comnpatible machine.
> > > > However, jmk has already fixed that for 486's.  If you want, you could comment
> > > > out lines 900 and 901 in 9/pc/devarch.c and see if it helps.
> > > >
> > > > Unfortinately, I don't have a matching processor.  I did make a cpu kernel from
> > > > the distribution and it worked on a Xeon but that doesn't tell you much I guess.
> > >
> > > The DX value from the cpuid instruction shows the processor has the capabilities
> > > which were missing on Lucio's SiS processor and causing it to reboot, so that shouldn't
> > > be the problem.
> >
> > i commented out those lines, without result.
> > got my serial cable and added some print statements to main.c;
> > it seems to die in cpuidentify().
> > I'll try adding some more print statements and see what I learn.
>
> It seems that my machine did not like the line (guarded by an if statement):
>
> rdmsr(0x1B, &apicbase);
>
> near the end of cpuidentify().
>
> Now that I'm looking at sources, that piece of code seems to be gone... :-)
>
> Axel.

My fault. That code was in my private copy and I updated the main tree before
taking it out. I took it when looking at your problem when I realised is shouldn't
have been there.

Sorry.