Subject: Re: Re:Reboot NetBSD on Falcon
To: JL Meyrial <JLMEYRIAL@cimegroup.com>
From: Leo Weppelman <leo@wau.mis.ah.nl>
List: port-atari
Date: 03/03/2000 22:39:26
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 03:48:56PM +0100, JL Meyrial wrote:
> I wrote:
> > I use NetBSD 1.4 (BOOTX) on Atari Falcon 030: 14 Mb RAM, 520 Mb SCSI disk IBM-DSAS3540 (targ 0),
> > SCSI2 CDROM TOSHIBA (targ 5) with a RGB atari monitor (resolution 768x480 256 colors)
> > and I often have to reboot 2 or 3 times before having NetBSD running correctly.
> >
> > When it crashes at reboot, I have:
[ Trace of the crash removed for brevity ]
> >
> > Sometimes, I have the message "spurious interrupt" but NetBSD is running with no crash.
> 
> 
> The crash happens generally at booting when it checks the ffs format on the SCSI2 disk (2 ffs partitions), sometimes it happens at logins (after the user input loggin) 

I came to the conclusion that this crash is familiar. The crash happens at
the return from run_main(). Apparently, the stack gets trashed. The big
problem is that I am unable to reproduce it and this makes it very difficult
to investigate and fix.

Leo.