[comp.os.minix] Minix-386 boot problems

st12a@menudo.uh.edu (richard henderson~) (04/26/91)

Several times in the process of installing Bruce's 386 patches, the newly
build kernel would fail with a message like (I only wrote down the address):

	nonmaskable interrupt
	proc -2: 0005:00000A5F
	fault in kernel
	press any key to reboot

I presumed this must have been what John Nall was refering to about the 
problem with init.c.  After increasing init's stack size to 1920, the kernel
makes it past the bit where memory sizes are displayed.  At this point the 
system hangs.  To make it more confusing, the system must me turned off, not
simply reset with the reset button, otherwise the normal 16 bit kernel will 
also hang at the same place.

system config:
	/etc/rc {
		# yes, I did move it down this far in fear that something
		# here was making it hang.
		/bin/cat /etc/message
		/etc/update &
	}
	/etc/config {
		setdev rootdev bootdev
		setenv ramsize 1024
	}

thanks in advance,

richard~
st12a@menudo.uh.edu
richard@stat.tamu.edu