Re: NetBSD4 INSTALL kernel fails to boot on A7000

Peter Howkins wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Chris Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:

> Status: Running
> Command: /sbin/newfs -V2 -O 1 -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/rwd0a
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /dev/rwd0a: 804.7MB (1648080 sectors) block size 8192, fragment size 1024
> using 18 cylinder groups of 44.71MB, 5723 blks, 11136 inodes.
> Stopped in pid 10.1 (newfs) at   0x1000: address 0x1000 is invalid
> andeq   r0, r0, r0
> db>
> 
Hmm. There was a window where current kernels have a serious interrupt 
handling bug (now fixed) that usually manifested just after boot as soon 
as you start to do a reasonable amount of disk activity. Wonder if the 
kernel you are using suffers from that?

Any 4.99.x kernel built after 21/8 should have the fix. Current kernels 
built between 28/4 and 21/8 will be broken.

Even with that fix I'm still seeing crashes that look a lot like this on 
my fully installed system when running the overnight scripts. Thats 
probably a similar load to that done by newfs. I've got some filesystem 
creation/updating to do on my acorn32 system so I'll see if I can 
reproduce your newfs on my current build.

If there isn't a recent current install kernel on ftp.netbsd.org let me 
know I can soon get one built and uploaded where you can download it.

Mike