Re: New kernel no longer boots on one of my machines... ata, other problems

2000-01-09 Thread Greg Childers
Yes! That is exactly the problem I have been having since the 1999/10/09 12:57:15 PDT ATA commit. Here is the link to the email I sent earlier: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1326170+1331912+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-current/19991212.freebsd-current Basically, on my Pen

Re: New kernel no longer boots on one of my machines... ata, other problems

2000-01-09 Thread Hans Ottevangerne_anchors
Hi, Before people start wondering about my name being mangled in the From: field of my previous message: Sorry, it happens regularly when cutting and pasting into the mailer of the Netscape Communicator 4.7. Maybe I have to switch to another mailtool... Cheers, Hans To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: New kernel no longer boots on one of my machines... ata, other problems

2000-01-09 Thread Hans Ottevangerne_anchors
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Well guys, I tried upgrading one of my older machines today to the > latest 4.0. It was running an older 4.0 kernel (Nov 29 1999). > [ Detailed description deleted ] > HELP! Whats happening!!! :-( :-( :-( > > At the moment I am stymied. I s

Re: New kernel no longer boots on one of my machines... ata, other problems

2000-01-07 Thread Hans Ottevanger
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Well guys, I tried upgrading one of my older machines today to the > latest 4.0. It was running an older 4.0 kernel (Nov 29 1999). > .. > HELP! Whats happening!!! :-( :-( :-( > > At the moment I am stymied. I switched to a GENERIC kernel

Re: New kernel no longer boots on one of my machines... ata, other problems

2000-01-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doug Ambrisko writes: : Tonight I will try to define : ATA_16BIT_ONLY : in my kernel and try to boot with ata. This may have to be set in GENERIC : for installs to work ... or the ata driver learn how to figure this out : automatically on the fly. Look at m

Re: New kernel no longer boots on one of my machines... ata, other problems

2000-01-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Anyways more work and lots of testing needs to be done. Even though I like :the new ata stuff and use it on all machines (except for one) this is scary :since a bunch of 4.0 users could get screwed with older good hardware. : :Tonight I will try to define : ATA_16BIT_ONLY :in my kernel

Re: New kernel no longer boots on one of my machines... ata, other problems

2000-01-07 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Matthew Dillon writes: | Well guys, I tried upgrading one of my older machines today to the | latest 4.0. It was running an older 4.0 kernel (Nov 29 1999). I ran into a similar problem when upgrading my server at home. It is an old 486 with an Intel Saturn chipset. I found the IDE dri

Found it --- 'ata' driver screwing up the machine (was Re: New kernel no longer boots on one of my machines... ata, other problems)

2000-01-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
:From what I can tell so far, something during the kernel boot is :disabling the timer interrupt. The ATA probe does a tsleep() which :never times out. Output is queued to the console during the boot :sequence which is never printed (until I CTL-ALT-ESC)... : :has someone m

Re: New kernel no longer boots on one of my machines... ata, other problems

2000-01-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :: * First, it locks up with process 0 stuck in 'atawait' while : : : I meant 'atacmd' here. : : -Matt From what I can tell so far, something

Re: New kernel no longer boots on one of my machines... ata, other problems

2000-01-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
: * First, it locks up with process 0 stuck in 'atawait' while I meant 'atacmd' here. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New kernel no longer boots on one of my machines... ata, other problems

2000-01-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
Well guys, I tried upgrading one of my older machines today to the latest 4.0. It was running an older 4.0 kernel (Nov 29 1999). I've included the dmesg output from the (successfully booting) older kernel at the end. The newer kernel locks up in several ways: * Fi