From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200401252312.i0PNCtX08190@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fresh compiled kernels no longer boot..? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:02:46 -0500." References: From: Axel Belinfante MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <8186.1075072374.1@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:12:55 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c0aa8d64-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.