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From: mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Recent tar_files/sys.tar.z distribution.
Date: 29 Jun 1993 20:59:11 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland
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In article <20knemINNciu@crcnis1.unl.edu> rse@cse.unl.edu (robert ellsworth) writes:
>	2) I can no longer boot my machine with the newly compiled kernel.
>	When it goes through the displaying of your system configuration,
>	it doesn't include my 2 IDE drives (Conner 170M, and Seagate 157A),
>	does a panic: trap, and reboot my machine.  But.. If I was to turn
>	the turbo switch off, it recognizes the disks, but then I receive
>	ISA strayintr 7's.

In wdprobe() it calls wdcommand() to try to WDC_DIAGNOSE.  I found that if
I don't check the error return, it finds my controller but not the disks.
If I slow the machine down, it finds the disks too.  I saw some discussion
of timing problems related to this on the mailing list.

I notice that wd.c is changed quite a bit from the old barsoom driver.

Anyway, I got the kludged kernel to boot, and it said "panic: init died".  I
don't think it is really running /sbin/init-- I put code in icode[] in locore.s
to open the console and write to it and I never saw that either.

I'm running a 0.8 kernel right now... :)