Subject: Re: Crash on reboot, -current kernel.
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/24/1997 01:12:14
Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
> 
> On 8/21/97 at 10:54 AM -0700, you wrote:
> 
> > Scott has suggested that something about the size of the kernel might be
> > tickling some variable somewhere, and that if you cut out all the
> > unnecessary devices in your kernel config file, you just might change the
> > kernel size enough to alleviate the difficulties.
> 
> Hm... Oddly, the kernel is already stripped about as bare as is possible.
> I've cut out pretty much everything I couldn't directly use right now.
> 
> > I assume that the -current GENERIC kernels do not exhibit the same behavior?
> 
> I built a GENERICSBC kernel from the same source as my customized kernel,
> and it rebooted without crashing.

Hmmmm...maybe it's hanging somewhere while syncing disks?  Do you get the
little "Failed to set PRAM" message flash by when you reboot?

Later.

-- 
Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
-----------------------------------------------------------------
I speak only on my own behalf, not for my employer.