Re: ofwboot.xcf, kernel problems with new GCC?

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, John D. Baker wrote:

> The start of the backtrace indicates something with the "ahc" driver.
> The machine does have an Adaptec 2930 SCSI card in it.  I'll take it
> out and see if the behavior changes.

With the SCSI card removed, (and using the old "ofwboot.xcf") the
GENERIC kernel boots and the machine goes multi-user without a
problem.

It seems to be unable to shutdown or reboot, printing:

syncing disks... done
unmounting file systems...[hung]

This is curiously consistent with what I get with most (but not all)
diskless i386 systems too.

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