Re: OpenBSD/pmax crashes compiling kernel

[Georg Schwarz <schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de>]

> > 
> > It was running the generic kernel, of course.
> 
> yes, but you wasn't compiling a generic kernel. You seems to miss a

yes, I tried to compile a non-generic kernel.

> 
> pseudo-device loop 1
> 
> in your kernel configuration.

aha. I didn't know a loop device was necessary.
(could it be I'm too "linuxed" to understand it? Does loop stand for
loopback interface here? That I do need of course...)

> 
> I would suggest you to update clock.c and mainbus.c in sys/arch/pmax/pmax
> to latest version. clock.c to get correct year after reboot and

yes, I noticed it always  bounced me back to Jan 1st, 1998. I've had the
same problem with an older version of Linux after the y2k new year.
Thanks for the hint.

> mainbus.c to make sure that kernels dosn't hang after identifying
> mainbus0.

Thanks. I directly got those two files from
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/OpenBSD/src/sys/arch/pmax/pmax/
I hope that's OK. I'll try again now building a custom kernel.

> 
> I have no clue why the machine doesn't answer anymore.
> 

nor do I. There was nothing on the console, no message. It had just frozen.
Only a hardware reset made it awake again.

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