On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 02:54:44AM +0200, Tamas TEVESZ wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Martin Reindl wrote: > > > > i ultimately wanted to try martin reindl's alpha patch on my pws500au > > > (even if i wouldn't have scored extra anyway), when i realized my > > > alpha was hosed, so i grabbed the sept 10 snapshot, installed it fine, > > > cvs'd src/, compiled a generic kernel, and upon reboot: > > > > I just don't recall what patch this might have could been, > > Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:47:13 +0200 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Alpha testers needed > > ^- this one (didn't get to the part of even thinking about trying to, > tho). > > > but you disabled ISA. The clock attaches to ISA. Don't disable ISA. > > you mean as in `editing arch/alpha/conf/GENERIC'? no i didn't. swear > to god. not even with config(8). or anything that can do this and i'm > aware of. i went like: > > netboot bsd.rd as per install.alpha, install it, cvs co src, cd > /usr/src/sys/alpha/conf, config GENERIC, cd ../compile/GENERIC, make > clean depend bsd, mv bsd /bsd && chmod 0644 /bsd && chown root:wheel > /bsd && reboot. this is exactly what resulted in no clocks. > > and i didn't disable it in srm either (if that is possible at all, > which i do not know, but would nevertheless be quite surprised). > > according to config, > > ukc> find isa > 111 isa* at pceb*|sio* flags 0x0 > ukc> > > i have followed -current with this box up until maybe one and a half > weeks ago semi-regularly, never had any problems, except for the > phenomenon which matthieu described as `the alpha bug' and is known, > but never anything like that. > > now i'm getting confused...
>From your diff: -isa0 at sio0 -isadma0 at isa0 Hello? Dunno what you booted but it was not GENERIC.
