Ouch.. are you 100% all your TT memory is ok - is is possible
	to test your TT memory in stages - stip down to a minumum
	and then swap the chips around (I dont know if you can do this
	on a TT - apologies if you cannot :)	

                David/abs               abs@anim.dreamworks.com

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|          too drunk to care          |    the hell of the night before    |
|  looked like death, felt like hell  |   I've been drinking myself blind  |
`------ been the worse for wear ------'-- and still I'll drink some more --'

On Mon, 26 May 1997, Benjamin Lorenz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> NetBSD/atari is running now. Problem was -- what else -- my broken
> floppy drive. The kernel was searching for a default root device
> (why is it doing so when booting with -b ??) and was waiting for the
> floppy timeout on fd0 and fd1... 
> 
> I was then able to install the tar archives without major problems.
> 
> What works fine:
> 
>  ppp: after copiing/adapting my linux config files, I got connection
>       to the university using /dev/ser02 at 57600 bps. ftp transfer
>       rate with my 28800 bps modem is 3.21 k/s -- a _very_ nice
>       value, compared to Linux...
> 
> Problems:
> 
> As soon as I enable my TT ram (20 MB), I get MMU faults after some
> time of using the system. Without TT ram, everything seems to work
> very well, I succeeded in compiling zsh -- with only 4 Megs of memory
> and intensive swapping! 
> 
> But after the crashes while using TT ram, fsck has to fix this and
> that, resulting in a clean filesystem, but also resulting in an
> increasing unstable kernel! After some crashes, I had to re-install
> the whole system (!) to make it usable again. 
> I got strange errors like
> 
>  tar: unable to write file xy: unknown error 4088392
> 
> or
> 
>  /usr/libexec/ld.so: undefined symbol _xy
> 
> 
> Well, next I would like to try out X, I already have all the tar files
> at hand, but my kernel has only "1 view configured".
> As I understand it, I need at least 2 views? What to do?
> 
> Benni
>