Hi Warner,
> OK. I've managed to bring 1.3.96 up on the Deskstation to the same
> level that I've been able to get previous releases up to (namely the
> mounting of root on my floppy failing). I'll be sending Ralf the
> changes that I have.
Ok, I'll try to integrate them into my source tree though this is now
a bit more difficult ...
> On disturbing trend in all of this is that my 1.3.62 kernel was 600273
> bytes (as reported by size), while my 1.3.96 kernel (exact same
> config) is 626081 bytes. All the revs (almost) inbetween that I
> compiled were bigger than the previous ones. This bodes not well me
> thinks. At least the 640k limit is history for me, so I'm much less
> worried now than I was before.
The workaround for the 640k problem (Bill is watching you ...) is buggy
in your release. When freeing the memory I've freed ALL memory from
0-640kb - even the copy of the exception handlers. This should have
affected you yet ...
> Oh well, time to see if I can get the BusLogic driver working so I can
> have SCSI. Maybe the floppy is just busted and the hard disk will be
> better (I fear this is wishful thinking on my part because I think
> there are DMA problems with the kernel on my machine that I've not yet
> fixed). Also noticing some oddities in the output of Ctrl-ScrollLock,
> namely there is a swapper process whose pid keeps getting bigger. It
> is a child of swapper process of pid 1. Maybe nothing to worry about,
> so I won't until I get the DMA issues ironed out.
Your kernel is trying to start /bin/sh again and again but fails each
time trying ...
You might really try to use NFS root; it's extremly usefull for development.
Ralf
|