Subject: Re: VM panic w/ Mar 4th -current
To: Bruce Albrecht <Bruce.Albrecht@seag.fingerhut.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 03/06/1997 10:23:29
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997 12:18:19 -0600
Bruce Albrecht <Bruce.Albrecht@seag.fingerhut.com> wrote:
> I rebuilt my system with -current from 5/4, and when I attempted to
> reboot, it panicked in some of the VM stuff. It had several VM error
> messages right before it too. I didn't have time to write down the
> errors, so I'll do that tonight. Have there been any more VM fixes?
In order to diagnose this, it is important to know what the error
messages are...
> I'm running on a Commodore A3000 with a HD drive, and I noticed that
> it's no longer detecting a HD floppy disk during boot, and it hangs
> trying to read from DF0: if I have a HD PC formatted floppy in the
> drive, right after detecting all of the SCSI devices. If there's
> nothing in the drive, it boots normally, although it does seem to be
> trying to access the floppy drive after the SCSI device detect.
This part sounds like an amiga-specific problem...
> Also, I was looking at the swapnetbsd.c file in the compile directory,
> and noticed that it defined dumpdev to be one of my AmigaDOS
> partitions. Could this clobber my AmigaDOS partition? What should it
> be, and how do I define it in the config file? It's not mentioned in
> either config or options.
dumpdev defaults to the same as swapdev... could you mail me your
config file and the contents of swapnetbsd.c, privately please?
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