Re: VM panic w/ Mar 4th -current

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%nas.nasa.gov@localhost>]

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997 12:18:19 -0600 
 Bruce Albrecht <Bruce.Albrecht%seag.fingerhut.com@localhost> 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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