Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:44:03 +0100 From: Thomas Pornin <pornin@bolet.ens.fr> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: dmesg segfaults Message-ID: <19990302114403.A16767@bolet.ens.fr>
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Hello, I installed the 0206 snapshot on a Multia. I found some little bugs, and one more embarrassing, but maybe I am just dumb: -- netboot did not work. The netboot program could not find the ethernet address, and, if I set it up manually (with setnetbootinfo on another station), it did emit bootp requests, that were answered (according to tcpdump) but netboot claimed it never received any answer. Maybe my firmware is too old, or something like that. Sending "boot.flp" through the net instead of "netboot" did not work too, so I had to boot the Multia under Linux and dump boot.flp on the harddisk, and then boot from it (the floppy drive is out of order). -- All my "post-installation configuration" disappeared into an unknown void, and I had to edit rc.conf at the next boot. Not a real problem. -- I wanted to add a getty for the vt220 I used for installation, therefore I modified /etc/ttys, and did "kill -HUP 1". This did not work; but a reboot fixed it. Apparently, init does not reread /etc/ttys when it receives a HUP signal. -- Here comme the annoying problem: whenever I recompile and boot on a new kernel, that has not the "GENERIC" configuration, dmesg, kvm_mkdb, netstat -r, and probably other utilities die with a segfault. The machine is otherwise functionnal. The only change I seem to be able to do in the config file without triggering this effect is commenting out the 'cpu "EV5"' line. Is this a known problem ? Or am I just doing something completely the wrong way ? I have also some questions about modules. Namely, the distribution comes with several .ko files in /modules. I am wondering: -- are modules automatically inserted when needed, or must I do an explicit "kldload" ? -- how do I compile some parts of the kernel as modules ? I would like to get the smallest kernel as possible (I only have 24 MB ram, this is not much on a Multia) -- is there anywhere a more accurate and complete documentation than the handbook, that I could read instead of bothering this list ? Anyway, thanks for the good job and for any information. --Thomas Pornin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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