On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:34:43PM -0800, Doug Melton wrote:
> Hello, I have a Powerbook 3400c, and I just compiled and installed the
> NetBSD 1.6 GENERIC kernel. But then when I booted, the computer froze. These
> are the lines that it showed when booting my self-compiled GENERIC kernel:
> 
>  mainbus0 (root)
> cpu0 at mainbus0: 603ev (Revision 2.1), ID 0
> cpu0: HID0 90c000 <DOZE, DPM, ICE, DCE>
> cpu0: Ohare L2 cache enabled
> 
> (and this is where it froze).
> 
> When booting with the standard kernel, it displayed those lines and then
> the line after that was:
> 
> bandit0 at mainbus0
> [etc...]
> 
> so I am assuming that something between the L2 cache line and the bandit0
> line it didn't like. However, it's odd that the kernel that I compiled does
> not behave the same as the original. Do the order of the lines in the
> /sys/arch/macppc/conf/GENERIC file have anything to do with the order these
> lines
>  appear in the boot sequence?

No

> If so, I don't see anything between the "cpu*"
>  line and the "bandit*" line... Does anyone have any ideas?

I get the same issues on a Powermac 4400: a custom kernel will hang at the
very first stage of boot (it doesn't even print the copyright notice)
where a GENERIC kernel built from same sources/same toolchain will work.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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