From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 26 18:33:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA25014 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:33:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp [131.113.32.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA25009 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:33:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from hosokawa@localhost) by frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.4Wbeta3) id LAA22887; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:33:25 +0900 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:33:25 +0900 Message-Id: <199703270233.LAA22887@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Subject: 2.2.1 Serious boot problem related to i586_copy* From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) X-Mailer: mnews [version 1.20] 1996-12/08(Sun) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi! I found the reason of a serious boot problem I reported yesterday. On some Pentium machines (as far as I know Panasonic AL-N1, and Rios Chandler), i586_copyout and i586_copyin does not work and they causes system hangup before starting sysinstall. This problem can be avoided by specifying "flags npx0 0x07" from UserConfig CLI mode. This is very serious problem because users of these machines can't see the menu screen of boot.flp. If it's in time, please add a note about this problem in INSTALL.TXT or HARDWARE.TXT. Thanks! -- HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi E-mail: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp WWW homepage: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa.html Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan