Subject: Re: two questions
To: None <klee@rdcclink.rd.qms.com>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@entropic.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/28/1994 15:21:10
> I have been running NetBSD 1.0Beta(Aug 1) and XFree86 2.1.1 for a
> while. Yesterday, I have decided to partition my second hard drive as
> a backup system, just in case the system on my first drive crashes. I
> have partitioned to have root, swap, user space and also DOS partition
> as well. I have disklabeled, newfsed and cped kernel plus few other
> things. When I rebooted the system, the system changes the root to
> wd1a, but gave me strayintr 7 error message. I ignored the message,
> and it continued to do fsck. What is this strayintr 7 mean?
> Everything else works fine. I could mount /dev/wd0a and /dev/wd0e for
> reading and writing.
The strayintr 7 message means that an interrupt got raised and lowered before
the CPU could acknowledge it (look at the comments in isa_strayintr() in
sys/arch/i386/isa/intr.c). If your system works fine then you can safely
ignore it (that message isn't logged after the 5th one).
> I, then, switched to system on first drive and mounted /dev/wd1a. It
> also gave me strayintr 7 error message. Also, when I ran swapinfo
> command, it gave me /dev/?? It used to give me partition name(wd0b)
> when I had system on only one drive. Again, everything seem to work
> fine. What does this mean?
you're running the old swapinfo binary from 0.9; it doesn't exist under 1.0.
"pstat -s" is the functional equivalant.
--Ken