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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1592 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:49:51 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.ans.net!cmcl2!prism.poly.edu!kapela From: kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela) Subject: Re: [386bsd] gcc-2.3.3 compiled kernel won't boot Message-ID: <1993Feb16.150220.7344@prism.poly.edu> Keywords: kernel compile gcc-2.3.3 Organization: Polytechnic University, New York References: <fZc4E#8@quack.sac.ca.us> <1lh48kINNlgk@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 15:02:20 GMT Lines: 24 In article <1lh48kINNlgk@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> matt@gecko.oes.orst.edu (Matt Curfman) writes: >In article <fZc4E#8@quack.sac.ca.us> dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) writes: >> >>Has anyone experienced this endless reboot cycle when just recompiling >>the kernel with gcc-2.3.3 before? >I had the very same trouble. I'm running 386BSD with a full patchkit 0.2 >install, and the npx.c and npx.diff patches. The kernel reboots without >printing anything to the console. My machine is a i486-25DX with 8 meg You must compile "machdep.c" with the original (gcc 1.3.8) c compiler, not gcc-2.x.x. Do this, relink, copy, reboot. (BTW: Make sure you have a bootable floppy (with a working kernel on it, along with essential utils, such as the fixit.fs floppy) that you can boot with if the new kernel pukes. Also, keep a copy of the old kernel in /386bsd.alt (or similar) so it can be restored if need be) -- ............................................................................... Theodore S. Kapela kapela@poly.edu Center for Applied Large-Scale Computing Polytechnic University