Subject: Re: NetBSD-current hang on boot?
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/29/1999 11:10:50
> How hung is it?  Can you break into DDB?

Uh...  Sorry.  Yes.  I can break into DDB.  A stack trace shows:

[ DDB / wskbd / interrupt stuff ]
_idle(0,80000000,fffff000,0,f031cf84) at _idle + 0x12
bpendtsleep(f02d3b88,4,f0212722,0)
_uvm_scheduler(f031a010,31a00,321000,90,f02a10ac) at _uvm_scheduler + 0x1b
_main(0,0,0,0,0) at _main + 0x552

A ps from DDB shows:

4	...	init
3	...	reaper		reaper
2	...	pagedaemon	daemon_
1	...	init		wait
0	...	swapper 	schedul

This is transcribed from hand.  Although I tried to be accurate, I might
have missed something--if any other info would be useful, let me know.
I'd like to get a serial console hooked up, but I'm having trouble
getting boot code for my terminal server (DECServer 300), which has been
allocated for serving consoles...

Does this help any?

-allen