Re: Can't boot

["Michael Henry" <mhenry@white.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au> writes:]

> Boot process 7 dies
> [Kernel debugger @ spl 0]
> >
>When I get this message, the HDD light is permanently on.

At a guess, your IDE disk takes a long time to reset, and the driver's
giving up on you.

> Boot process 5 dies
> [Kernel debugger @ spl 0]
> >
>The HDD light is off when I get this message.

You probably inherited one of my mistakes, which is the arguments to the
filesystem process. Your "DOS" command line in boot/grub/menu.lst should
look like:

    module= /vsta/boot/dos -d disk/wd:wd0_dos0 -n fs/root

>I don't know how to use the debugger, and if I did, I wouldn't know
>what to look for, so I'd appreciate it if someone could give me some
>pointers as to what's going on here and how I can fix it.

If that doesn't help, a "pr" will at least give you a list of the processes
with their name, which'll tell you who died by name. "pr <pid>" tells you
about the process, including the threads within it. "bt <tid>" tells you
the stack backtrace of a given thread. You can tell me more in direct
E-mail if the dos arguments change doesn't help.

                                                        Andy
Received on Fri Sep 4 03:53:15 1998