From: eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: Linux 0.97 and fast 486: timing problem ? Date: 3 Aug 1992 13:33:46 GMT
In article <1992Aug3.003548.27998@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> jesq@coos.dartmouth.edu (Joseph Heye Killoran) writes:
>jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
>
>Yes we are both using IDE hard drives. Maybe this is a clue.
>Incidently someone just posted saying that compliling with the scsi
>stuff left in solved the problem for him. I just tried that
>and in made no difference: it hangs right before printing out partion
>data. Oh well.......0.96cpl2 will have to do for now.
I observed a system hang on boot up, and it was occurring because
the SCSI was not configured correctly. I had been keeping the /usr/include
tree separate from the /usr/src/linux/include tree, and there was some program
that is supposed to figure out the maximum number of host adapters that
there could possibly be on the system. This program was compiled using the
/usr/include/linux/config.h which is very old and out of date, and it came
up with 0. The system would hang when it got into the scsi startup somewhere,
because it cannot handle this case very well. I made a symlink such that
the /usr/include/linux directory was symbolicly linked to
/usr/src/linux/include/linux , and this solved the problem.
I did notice something really strange with 0.97 when I first loaded
it on Saturday. I was fiddling with the CDROM filesystem, and when I typed
`make disk' it would remake gobs and gobs of files that were unrelated. I
finally realized that Linus is about 8 hours ahead of us, and the times on
some of the source files were in the future on my machine :-)
-Eric