On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Josh Hope wrote:

> What machine are you running, tcjam? I tried Alan's kernel (out of
> frustration, mainly), and it pretty much hosed my file system :) It didn't
> like my EZ135 drive...after about 2 or 3 fsck's, it sorta crashed :)
> 
> Josh
> 
> On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, tcjam wrote:
> 
> > I've tried the 0824 kernel off macbsd.com and I haven't seen any problems
> > with it on my P460. I even mounted a cartridge on my SyQuest EZ135 Drive
		  ^^^^ As I said I'm using a P460 (Performa 460) what are
you using?

> > and it seemed to work fine. So far I've been running it for a few days and
> > I've done several concurrent makes, pushing the load up past 4 at times
> > without any ill-effects. Not only that but I haven't seen the filesystem
> > damage I've come to expect from using the regular GENERIC kernels. (the
> > name of the driver eludes me right now :) ) 
> > 
> > Allen, whatever you did to the scsi code I'm impressed this is the first
> > kernel besides GENERICSBC-26 that has both booted up and left my
> > filesystem intact after several reboots.
> > 
> > 	And while I'm writing about kernels I've recently tried my hand at
> > compiling a custom kernel using the 1.2.1 source tree. I cp'd the GENERIC
> > file to CUSTOM did a 'config CUSTOM;cd ../compile/CUSTOM;make depend;make'
> > and tested it only to have it spit out Illegal Instruction at the fsck in
> > /etc/rc. Does anyone know what I"m doing wrong or what I can do to get a
> > working kernel to compile? I'd really like to get my 1.2.1 binaries synced
> > to a kernel, procps just doesn't compare and I'm finding it hard to live
> > without identd.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
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