Subject: Re: recompiling the IIci kernel
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu>
From: Bharat S. Jhaveri <bjhaveri@Arco.COM>
List: macbsd-general
Date: 03/28/1994 22:41:27
>> I guess that I do have a problem. I got the recent kernel from kitten. I
>> was not able to boot. It did give a message that it was trying to boot, but
>> it hangs up. I got quite a few kernals and tried them they all hung up.
>
>Where do they get "hung up"? How far do they get (how many gray bars, if it
>doesn't even get to clearing the screen)?
>
>> I know that this kernel netbsd.CI has alwas booted. But quite a few times
>> I have to reboot because fsck gives a lot of errors.
>
>??? After clean shutdowns? How are you shutting down the system?
>
With your help, I did figure out the problem. I was booting the new
kernels with the old booter that was working with the netbsd.CI kernel.
Today I completely changed the system by getting the latest tar_files from
kitten from dist.tgz modified last on feb 28th. It boots with the latest
1.0 booter. Although rebooting ia hard. Now, I know that I have to ;
1) Completely shut and start the mac;
2) Make sure thar memory in booter is 16meg from bank A in CI(I have 4 Meg
in Bank B. Booter initializes 20 Meg). The booter has hard time. It wants
to auto-size RAM. But I found after hard work that only, bank A Meg should
be used. I hope this will work all the time.
So, I will be able to use the new kernels after all. Recompile it for
57600 bps, like you mentioned.
My real question. Where is /dev/ser0 for the modem and /dev/ser1 for the
printer in the new system. I saw /dev/tty, /dev/tty1, and/dev/tty0. I tried
them but did not work. Please let mr know
I hope this new system works well, or I might go back to the old
one(tar_files from cray-ymp from Jan)
Thanks for all the help you have given. I have found this exremely hard,
but then I am impatient and I want to finish what I start, (usually).
Sincerely;
bjhaveri@arco.com
Bharat S. Jhaveri
ARCO Exploration
& Production Technology
(214) 754-6407
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