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Date:      Thu, 24 Apr 1997 15:43:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Josh Howard <obiwan@zeppelin.net>
To:        "Kent S. Gordon" <kgor@inetspace.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au
Subject:   Re: Upgrading from 3.0-19970209-SNAP to -current
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970424154557.obiwan@zeppelin.net>
In-Reply-To: <199704241454.JAA04350@chess.inetspace.com>

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On 24-Apr-97 Kent S. Gordon wrote:
>>>>>> "davidn" == David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> writes:
>I have Cyrix 596-100, 16MB, bustek 445 and New kernel's do not
>successfully boot (die in detection of boot device.  Message vary with
>-current date and kernel options.  Normally just a hang, but I have
>seen disk detected as unknown device.  I tried tracing it using DDB
>but was unsuccesfully in finding anything useful).

Well, these problems we're suffering from seem to leave no message, no kernel
problems that are obvious, etc. Not sure where your problem lies..

>
>scsi detection.  My guess is that we are triggering a VM bug.
>
>    > It might even be a bug that's been there all along, but the
>    > lite2 merges have brought it to light.
>
>    > Come to think of it, all of the other -current machines I run
>    > and work fine are scsi, or in one case, mostly scsi - aha and
>    > aic types. Hmm.
>I have a PP-180, 64MB, mainly ide system that works great.
>

Well, the newest theory might be pointing towards pppd (or even ijppp), do you
run either of those on that machine?

>
>Kent S. Gordon
>Senior Software Engineer
>iNetSpace Co.
>voice: (972)851-3494 fax:(972)702-0384 e-mail:kgor@inetspace.com
>

---
Josh Howard (obiwan@zeppelin.net)
Illinois isn't exactly the land that God forgot -- it's more like the
land He's trying to ignore.



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