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HELL! I think I got it! It's got to do with serial console!
I'm on track. Fault here easily reproducable by typing something and
then hitting backspace. If entering -h first this won't happen.
cheers
simon
On 11.09.2004, at 04:35, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> okay... more information:
>
> i've been playing around with qemu to test that boot issue.
> unfortunately gdb hangs at some point and it's really hard to debug
> without symbols and with the CPU happily switching between protected
> and real mode...
>
> anyways:
>
> - latest sys/boot sources
> - gcc2 bootblocks work
> - gcc3 bootblocks don't. failure: BTX error stuff
>
> while debugging it became obvious that it must be something within
> boot2.c: sometimes it showed "No /boot/loader" and then just 2 BTX
> halted stuff.
> Another fact is that it takes 3 seconds for the BTX to fail, whereas
> pressing any key instantly crashes it. must be somewhere between that
> printf() in load() and the printf() in main() that outputs the prompt.
> or this one gets overwritten by the error message. oh well.
>
> so long for this report, cheers
> simon
>
> On 10.09.2004, at 20:37, Scott Ullrich wrote:
>
>> Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
>>> Now do that from a current snapshot.
>>
>> I just updated all of the boot code from Sep 10th snapshot ISO and
>> now everything works as exepcted.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Scott
>>
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