From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 20:51:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA01666 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:51:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA01661 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:51:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA02883; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:51:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Josh Emmons (skia)" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Kernel problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Josh Emmons (skia) wrote: > ok, upon booting thismorning, I tried to make the kernel again (after make > failed a few times last night I gave up). > > The new kernel seem to work with the following exceptions: > > 1) on boot I still have to specify the drive root is on like: > > 1:wd(2,a)/kernel > > I setup the drive in my config file like this > > config kernel root on wd2 > > and nothing different happens. It still looks on wd0 for root. Am I > modifying the wrong thing? I'm not sure this is a problem you can fix. You're trying to boot a disk out of range of the normal BIOS (unless you don't have a wd1). > 2) Sense I started booting the new kernel, I've been getting really wierd > page_faults at random times. There was also one incident where the shell > stopped responding and the message Out of Swap Space or something like > that kept popping up. Then all sorts of processes just started > terminating en mas.. Did I do something REALLY wrong? I don't know. Were you actually out of swap? Try running swapinfo at various times and keep an eye on the usage. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major