From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 10 06:55:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA06765 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 06:55:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay1.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua (bcs-ts33.zcn.net [195.123.8.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA06655 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 06:54:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from serg@bcs3.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua) Received: from bcs3.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua (bcs3.bcs.zp.ua [195.123.10.73]) by relay1.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA03381; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 16:53:04 +0200 (EET) Received: (from serg@localhost) by bcs3.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02481; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 16:54:19 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from serg) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 16:54:19 +0200 (EET) From: Sergey Shkonda Message-Id: <199801101454.QAA02481@bcs3.bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua> To: "Richard M. Neswold" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6 Problems... Newsgroups: bcs.Gated.FreeBSD-Hardware In-Reply-To: User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971123 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/2.2.5-STABLE (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In article you wrote: > Hello, > I recently upgraded my system to a K6/166. I booted with /kernel.GENERIC > so that I could recompile my kernel with "i586_CPU" defined. The newly > compiled kernel only booted as far as the probe messages. No error > messages or panics occurred; the system just sat there after probing the > hardware. > I rebooted to GENERIC again and tried a debugging kernel. It stopped at > the same point in the booting process. Hitting the hot key brought me into > the debugger. Since I'm a complete novice at using the kernel debugger, > this route wasn't too enlightening. > I also tried recompiling a new GENERIC kernel (the one I was using was > from last October.) The new GENERIC kernel stopped at the same point, too. > I've tried compiling kernels with various drivers removed. I've disabled > drivers from the visual config editor. Nothing lets a 2.2.5 kernel boot > (my working GENERIC kernel is 2.2.2-ish -- maybe even 2.2.1-ish!) > Windows95 works an this hardware, as does the old GENERIC kernel. > I have a K6 (stepping 9741 (?)), 64MB of SDRAM, Intel-TX chipset. options AUTO_EOI_1 and AUTO_EOI_2 will be disabled. > Any help or suggestions would be appreciated! > Rich > ======================================================================== > Richard Neswold | rneswold@mcs.net > Home Page 'http://www.mcs.net/~rneswold/' | > PGP Key 'finger rneswold@mcs.net' | -- Sergey Shkonda (serg@bcs.zaporizhzhe.ua)