From: quanstro@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom)
Subject: [9fans] New venti install won't boot after 05:00 crash
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:57:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <987a8b28e8ffea8e761ac322de44a2af@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ipvdkdcu.fsf@cmarib.ramside>
> As a workaround, I tried putting "echo dma on > /dev/sdC0/ctl" in
> termrc. This was sufficient to keep a fossil-only install from failing.
> But, even *with* this workaround, a fossil+venti install would still
> return i/o errors. That's probably because fossil calls venti before
> init calls termrc. Even wrapping init in a shell script probably
> wouldn't get DMA turned on soon enough to make venti happy, but your
> kernel did the trick.
great work.
i do want to point out that your trick to get the fossil-only install
going is not going to be reliable. it relies on the boot process winning
a race that it is likely to lose; you'll need to run the 9atom kernel
regardless.
does anything think that it's a mistake to default dma on?
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-20 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-18 0:58 smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-18 3:03 ` John Floren
2011-03-18 13:26 ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-18 3:22 ` ron minnich
2011-03-18 3:30 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-18 15:47 ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-18 16:12 ` Jacob Todd
2011-03-18 17:33 ` John Floren
2011-03-18 23:45 ` Steve Simon
2011-03-19 0:02 ` ron minnich
2011-03-19 1:04 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19 1:27 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-18 16:47 ` rod at hemiola.co.uk
2011-03-19 2:15 ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-19 2:33 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19 2:47 ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-03-19 2:53 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19 3:27 ` ron minnich
2011-03-19 4:17 ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-03-19 4:16 ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-03-19 14:20 ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-19 14:32 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19 16:35 ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-03-19 20:29 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19 14:47 ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-19 15:14 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-20 15:42 ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-20 16:57 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-03-20 17:12 ` Lucio De Re
2011-03-20 17:55 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-20 18:09 ` Lucio De Re
2011-03-21 3:48 ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-21 3:57 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-18 17:33 ` erik quanstrom
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