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Re: gnumach2 and pcmcia
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: gnumach2 and pcmcia |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Nov 2002 01:30:31 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:51:50AM +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> Good news. The pcmcia patch I made for OSKit seems to work, of course
> including some bugs. The patches for OSKit and gnumach are here [1].
Cool! Congratulations, this is really good news.
> I have two major problems found so far. First the hda geometry scan
> will _only_ work if the console output goes over the serial line.
> Booting without any attached null model cabel will result in
> wrong hda geometry scan which prevents further booting.
That is strange.
> Unfortunately
> I could not use gdb to debug because if gdb is attached I see a SIGTRAP in
> copyout_retry().
I see this as well, but I just press "c"ontinue, and it works fine for me
beyond this point.
> Second problem is a panic, triggered by not very heavy lot on the net
> device. A simple 'ls -lR' on a mounted nfs filesystem will caused
> it. I haven't looked into that one yet.
At least it is easily reproducible :)
I am currently still busy with the console, but this work is nearing to a
first end. So when I finished that, I can try out my pcmcia card.
Thanks,
Marcus
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