From: Niels Skov Olsen (dingbat@diku.dk)
Date: 09/14/92


From: dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen)
Subject: .97pl5 won't boot
Date: 14 Sep 1992 13:48:49 GMT


My .97pl5 won't boot. My configuration:

        i386dx/33mhz
        8mb ram
        adaptec 1542b with 3 disks on the scsi bus
        plain old (noname) VGA
        
I took the complete .97pl3 as found on tsx-11 and applied patch4
and patch5 with no rejects. I compiled it under .97pl4 with
gcc.2.2.2d with no problems. So far so good. It loads normally (from
fd0) initializing serials, sockets, mouse etc. The 3 scsi disks are
correctly identified, and the last message I get is this:
 
        scsi: detected 3 SCSI disks 0 tapes 0 CD-ROM drives total

and it just hangs there. I can switch VC's but no disks are mounted
and no logins appear. Pressing <Ctrl-ScrollLock> gives:

 Task-info:
 0: pid=0, state=0, father=0, child=-1, 2592/2592 chars free i kstack
 PC=00000000

Pressing <Alt-ScrollLock> gives:

 EIP: 0008:00039890 EFLAGS: 00000286
 EAX: fffffffd EBX: 00000020 ECS: ffffff97 EDX: 000000a1
 ESI: 00000002 EDI: 0005a052 EBP: 0005a080 DS: 0010 ES: 0010 FS: 0010 GS: 0010

So, what could be wrong? I did specify /dev/sda2 as root in the makefile.
I will try and get the distributed .97pl5 source and compile that, and if
can find a precompiled bootimage, I will try that also.

Niels