The following is forwarded on behalf of Josh Hope (he's having nameserver
difficulties).

Josh Hope wrote:

I believe I was talking with Colin Wood about this a while ago, either it
was him or Bill S. My mind fails me lately, I've been so busy...

Anyways, I was able to try out the newest kernel, made on December 13 (not
sure on it's number). It is an SBC kernel, and like the others made after
March 6, 1997, it stops loading at this point in the startup process:

sbc0 at obio0: options=1<PDMA>

I've done a trace, and here are the results:

db> trace
_Debugger(f28ac,3492,182c90,3572,ffffffff) + 6
_nmihand(ffffffff,8,0,0,182d42) + 26
_lev7intr(?)
_ncr5380_reset_scsibus(6b19800,6b19800,6b19800,6b19800,e54ee,1064ea) + 12
_sbc_obio_attach(6b165c0,6b19800,182d68,6b165c0,6b165c00) + 294
_config_attach(6b165c0,10643a,182d68,cdt46,0) + 28e
_obio_search(6b165c0,10643a,0,1061d6,10643a) + 54
_mapply(182db0,10643a) + 3c
_config_search(cdt68,6b165c0,0,cdt04,0) + 56
_obio_attach(6b16600,6b165c0,0,6b16600,0) + 24
_config_attach(6b16600,10620d,0,0,6b16600) + 28e
_mainbus_search(6b16600,10620a,0,1061e2,10620a) + 2e
_mapply(182e88,10620a) + 3c
_config_search(f5838,6b16600,0,f580a,0) + 56
_mainbus_attach(0,6b16600,f0875,f0875,f0875) + 1e
_config_attach(0,1061ee,f0875,0,124) + 28e
_config_rootfound(f0875,f0875) + 3a
_configure(f1982,b3,63000,f1971,871000) + 1e
_cpu_startup(10708c,23b0c,6010,800406b5,ffffcffc) + 4b8
_main() + 4a
_main() + 4a
db>

To remind everyone, I am using a Performa 600 without an FPU, and I need
an SBC kernel to run with my EZ drive (my root partition)...

Thanks to everyone for their help and ample support. We should get this
corrected before the next release, since I'm not the only one reporting
these errors...

Josh Hope                                          root@unixgeek.ml.org
UNIX System Administrator                        http://unixgeek.ml.org
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