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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!uhog.mit.edu!news.bbn.com!petra!petra!drg From: drg@candidus.ma30.bull.com (Daniel R. Guilderson) Subject: Re: The Stray Interrupt Problem (7) under NetBSD ? In-Reply-To: fox@cs.mcgill.ca's message of 3 Feb 1994 17: 49:01 GMT Message-ID: <DRG.94Feb4114417@candidus.ma30.bull.com> Lines: 31 Sender: news@petra.ma30.bull.com (Network News) Organization: Zenith Data Systems / Bull, Billerica MA USA References: <MYCROFT.94Jan30231828@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <2ilr1i$6fl@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <2iokjj$he5@meatball.rwwa.com> <2irded$aq1@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 16:44:17 GMT Please allow me to add another data point to this problem. I had the strayintr 7 boot hanging problem on my system (486DX33, 16M RAM, 256K cache, 2 IDE drives, no network, Diamond Speedstar SVGA, 1540B IRQ 11 nothing connected on the SCSI bus although I plan to connect a tape drive). I had NetBSD 0.8 running great on my system so I decided to upgrade to NetBSD 0.9. I followed the directions in the README for an upgrade. I used the kc-aha-09p1.fs kernel copy floppy (note the p1, that's important). Everything went exactly as expected until I copied the kernel to the harddisk and rebooted off the hd (wd0a). Oops, strayintr 7 strikes me out. I try again a couple more times with no success and then go to bed. Next day, I see the message from the guy who solved the problem by turning off his external cache so that night, I turn off the external cache, no success, turn off internal cache, no success, yank 1540 out of box, no success. In desparation, and seeing that I also have the non-patched version of kc-aha-09.fs, I try copying that kernel to the hd and rebooting, BINGO! Something in that patch is causing me problems. I looked at the patch and it is all network driver code but I don't have a network card so I'm pretty much stumped. Oh well, at least I have NetBSD 0.9 running happily on my system. Hope this helps. Daniel R. Guilderson Zenith Data Systems / Bull 508-294-6612 300 Concord Road MA30/853A d.guilderson@ma30.bull.com Billerica, MA 01821 semper liberi