Re: ERLITE frozen in rc script after switching to GCC 5.4

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On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 09:34:24AM -0600, John D. Baker wrote:
> My Lemote YeeLoong (mips64-el LOONGSON-derived kernel) seems to work OK
> as far as updating the SD-card root/var filesystems now.
>

Do you have an allergy to disks? :-) it has a SATA disk. 

> Now, when leaving the machine sitting idle for a couple of days, I return
> to find it completely frozen--keyboard unresponsive, no messages of any
> kind on the console.  Forced power-cycle is the only recourse.  I then let
> it boot penguin-OS to clean up the ext2 filesystems then netboot NetBSD
> to clean up the SD-card FFS filesystems.
> 

I haven't gotten it to work, but I think only the kernel and boot.cfg need
to be in ext2 (or FAT), the rest of the OS can be whatever you want. No need
to mount it after booting a kernel.

Not that it should freeze... DEBUG and LOCKDEBUG may help... I've seen
freezes too.