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Re: NetBSD4 INSTALL kernel fails to boot on A7000



Peter Howkins wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Chris Gilbert <chris%dokein.co.uk@localhost> 
wrote:

Status: Running
Command: /sbin/newfs -V2 -O 1 -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/rwd0a

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/rwd0a: 804.7MB (1648080 sectors) block size 8192, fragment size 1024
using 18 cylinder groups of 44.71MB, 5723 blks, 11136 inodes.
Stopped in pid 10.1 (newfs) at   0x1000: address 0x1000 is invalid
andeq   r0, r0, r0
db>

Hmm. There was a window where current kernels have a serious interrupt handling bug (now fixed) that usually manifested just after boot as soon as you start to do a reasonable amount of disk activity. Wonder if the kernel you are using suffers from that?

Any 4.99.x kernel built after 21/8 should have the fix. Current kernels built between 28/4 and 21/8 will be broken.

Even with that fix I'm still seeing crashes that look a lot like this on my fully installed system when running the overnight scripts. Thats probably a similar load to that done by newfs. I've got some filesystem creation/updating to do on my acorn32 system so I'll see if I can reproduce your newfs on my current build.

If there isn't a recent current install kernel on ftp.netbsd.org let me know I can soon get one built and uploaded where you can download it.

Mike


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