Re: Boot probs...

I found the solution to the problem!

I downloaded Jeske's floppy image and used it to boot vsta
from the floppy, and then from the hard drive, without any problems.

So I looked at his boot sequence, and he had (from memory)

        module=/vsta/boot/dos -n fs/root -d //dos/fd:fd0_dos0

I'd been using "-d dos/fd:fd0_dos0", as per the recommendations given
in this mailing list. (Since the documentation was wrong).

Note to the documentors:

Could you please make sure the documentation is upgraded to reflect the
proper boot procedure.

        Thanks,

                Michael

>
> ["Michael Henry" <mhenry@white.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au> writes:]
>
> >> Now I guess do the same thing for the "dos" process; you should see two
> >> threads there.
> >There is only one thread. It is called "onproc".
> >bt produces:
> > _swtch(0x1, 0x1a, 0x1185a8, 0x1) called from (b)
>
> Hmmm, usually there should be two threads, one doing async I/O to the disk,
> and the other doing the filesystem. It looks like one of your threads died
> while holding a mutex, and now the other thread is spinning, waiting for
> this mutex.
>
> Common causes include disks with pseudo-geometries, disks with certain kinds
> of compressed filesystems, and disks with really odd FDISK entries. Usually
> something like this causes the FS to try and do I/O to a location off the
> end of the disk, which results in a failed I/O.
>
> Andy
>
Received on Tue Sep 29 19:13:11 1998