On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Manuel Estrada Sainz wrote:
> o With the prebuilt kernel (from ftp.rfc822.org) over time (a day or
> so) and heavy load (a kernel build) I get masive filesystem
> corruption, so I am going diskless for now (it seams that the new
> kernel from cvs also has problems with this).
> In case this helps, this happend on the second scsi disk of a single
> controler, kernel output:
This is our well known "Multiple Disk Problem" (It's the official name).
If you use more than one Disk per controller actively (= have it mounted
and copy files between the disks) very bad things will happen.
Don't do that - you should do what I do at the moment: Mount the root
over NFS and mount __one__ harddisk and use that.
> o I am getting strange console behavior with my home built kernel from
> latest sgi cvs (mostly sure this is my fault).
>
> I don't get any output from the boot scripts, the last message I
> see on the little blue square is: Freeing unused kernel memory:...
> And the next thing I see is a login prompt and the top left
> corner. Is console output going somewhere else? Should I change
> /dev/console?
This sounds odd and should not happen. Can you check if your /dev/console
is looking like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/build# ls /dev/console -l
crw------- 1 root tty 5, 1 Jun 16 2001 /dev/console
>
> o OSLoadOptions just rembers the first 12 chars of its contents when
> rebooting, but SystemPartition remembers 35 without problem. I know
> that this is probably the know issue, but how can I give the kernel
> parameters if they don't feet?
> Maybe I could unset some variables to free some memory or use
> OSLoadPartition to pass some parameters.
Hmm, my guess would be, that this is a Problem with the PROM itself.
Maybe you should take a look at dvhtool ...
> o I compiled the kernel with the cross devel rpm packages at sgi, is
> that ok or what gcc/binutils should I use? Is it ok to build the
> kernel with gcc-2.95.4 natively?
Yes, this works ok - at least for me. The only problem is that
with current cvs kernel the nfs root seems to be fscked somehow.
You need to give the option ip=bootp or ip=dhcp at bootup to enable
bootp or dhcp - but it doesn't work then either.
Please tell me if you see this too if you try current cvs.
Bye, Klaus
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