From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 26 19:15:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA28221 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:15:39 -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 TAA28209 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:15:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from hosokawa@localhost) by frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.4Wbeta3) id MAA23335; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:15:33 +0900 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:15:33 +0900 Message-Id: <199703270315.MAA23335@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Subject: Re: 2.2.1 Serious boot problem related to i586_copy* In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:33:25 +0900". <199703270233.LAA22887@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> 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 In article <199703270233.LAA22887@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp writes: >> 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. Now I got a report from a person that "AKIA T515XP" came to boot 2.2.1 when he set this flags. FYI. If you have any boot problem with 2.2.1 boot.flp, please test this option. -- 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