Subject: Re: trouble booting Aug 1 kernel on mac68k
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Mario Kemper <magick@bundy.lip.owl.de>
List: current-users
Date: 08/10/1998 16:20:58
In article <199808100740.AAA02136@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>,
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:59:03 +0930 (CST)
> blymn@baea.com.au (Brett Lymn) wrote:
>
> > I too am seeing this on a i386 machine with a ncr. If I wait for long
> > enough I am rewarded with a script timeout but the thing never boots
> > regardless.
>
> The NCR problem was a bug in the NCR driver (race condition) that only
> appeared after I converted the SCSI code to use pools for scsipi_xfer
> structures.
>
> Ross Harvey committed a fix to the NCR bug the other day.
>
This did at least fix the NCR + i386 problem.
So port-i386/5930 can be closed.
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Mario Kemper
magick@bundy.lip.owl.de