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From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon)
Subject: buildworld.sh hangs GENERICISA
Message-ID: <1993Jul27.193247.29088@alw.nih.gov>
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Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 19:32:47 GMT
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Hardware: 486DX-33, 8MB, 2 240-MB IDE drives, each with DOS and 386bsd
partitions, 2 serial, parallel. Taiwanese IDE, floppy, serial, parallel
controller (one big ASIC). Taiwanese VGA. Motherboard is Compudyne
(from CompUSA). AMI BIOS.
Software: from original BIN01, SRC01 and ETC01 distributions, patches
1 through 174 (or whatever number the 2.4 patchkit goes to), and 90000
and 90001.
Experience: Original (patched) dist.fs worked well; so did GENERICISA.
Took me several tries of going all the way back to the thirty-some
floppies and running patches with IALL, before I got all the way
through the patch process. I kept running out of disk. Eventually I
retarred all of /usr/othersrc/public/* over to
/mnt/overflow/othersrc/public/* and created symlinks; this made the
patch process happy. I have a few MB left on each disk.
I configged a new kernel, based on GENERICISA but omitting the SCSI
support. Not much else. The resulting kernel seems to be OK, but
every 36 seconds, the message "status: 0" appears on the console,
relentlessly.
I find with the new kernel, also with GENERICISA, that after a
shutdown, ctrl-alt-DEL doesn't work! I have to hit reset.
Finally, running buildworld.sh, it hangs (either kernel running) on a
line which says "nroff -mandoc /usr/src/(I forget)/intro.2 > intro.0"
After just about 2.5 hours. (3 tries with same result).
Question 1: Has anyone seen this "status: 0" message every 36 seconds,
and can it be fixed?
Question 2: Has anyone seen ctrl-alt-DEL fail to reboot after shutdown?
Question 3: Has anyone seen buildworld.sh fail, at about the point
I've indicated?
Really, I had hoped to get past these barriers, so I could get into
drivers; I want to try the QIC80 stuff, but first I want to succeed at
the bare vanilla level.
I understand I may have skipped some essential part of TFM, running
either patches or buildworld.sh. I'd appreciate constructive flames!
Bless the net! (in advance, of course).
Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov - no, this is the system at work
O civili, si ergo, fortibus es in ero.
O novili, demis trux; indem arsem causen dux.
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