Re: Various cats problems

> On Tue, 04 May 2004 23:14:00 +0100
> Richard Earnshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Chris,
> > 
> > There still seem to be numerous problems on the Cats with 2.0 beta.
> > 
> > - Booting a non-standard kernel (eg at the firmware prompt typing boot
> > 
> > wd0:/testnetbsd.aout) seems to lead to the console being dead once 
> > bootstrap is complete (you can type in the name of the root file
> > system and init program, but you can't login afterwards).
> 
> How big is the kernel? if it's over 4 (or 5MB) it will start to boot and
> then stop somewhere.

Nothing like that (about 2.5MB).  The kernel is fully functional (you can 
remote login), but the console keyboard is dead.

> 
> what version of cyclone is this?
> 
> > - Kernels built with LOCKDEBUG will panic very quickly once booted.
> 
> Where do they panic?

In the lock assertion code.  I'll have to try this one again, but I think 
it was "locking against myself".

R.