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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] fresh compiled kernels no longer boot..?
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:12:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401252312.i0PNCtX08190@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:02:46 -0500." <c59d02fd7cee9771479bedea1f1d2d52@plan9.bell-labs.com>

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.

Axel.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-25 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-25 22:05 Axel Belinfante
2004-01-25 22:37 ` David Presotto
2004-01-25 23:02   ` jmk
2004-01-25 23:12     ` Axel Belinfante [this message]
2004-01-25 23:43       ` Axel Belinfante
2004-01-25 23:52         ` jmk
2004-01-26  0:13           ` Axel Belinfante
2004-01-26  0:52             ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-11 23:30               ` matt
2004-02-12  2:54                 ` boyd, rounin

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