Digital HiNote Ultra 2000 laptop

[Julian H. Stacey]

> Who else runs FreeBSD on a Digital HiNote Ultra 2000 laptop ?
>   I'm a chasing a kernel early boot failure.  So far:
>         cvs -R export -D "15-Feb-2004" sys      # Boots OK, says 5.2-CURRENT
>         setenv TZ GMT; cvs -R export -D "2004-02-16 00:00" sys  # BUILDING
>         cvs -R export -D "17-Feb-2004" sys      # Fails to boot.
>   Brief error message:
>         pir0: <PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 4 Entries> opn motherboard
>         pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
>         kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled
>   Fuller message to follow, when I've got a serial link up for console.

> Its a boot error very early in boot sequence, a more knowledgeable
> friend than I had problems trying to figure out what was crashing,
> so I'm zeroing in on when the commit was done, then will inspect
> suspect code.

I now know to the minute when some CVS commit broke my laptop boot:
 setenv TZ GMT; cvs -R export -D "2004-02-16 18:36" sys # Boots OK, 5.2-CURRENT
 setenv TZ GMT; cvs -R export -D "2004-02-16 18:37" sys # make error ffsl.c:43
 ...
 setenv TZ GMT; cvs -R export -D "2004-02-16 21:31" sys # ffsl.c:43
 setenv TZ GMT; cvs -R export -D "2004-02-16 21:32" sys # Boot Fails

Next I'll hitch up a serial cable to capture maximal boot diagnostics,
& log it to http://flat.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/digital/
& also summarise here, then I'll need to browse the source diffs.
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Julian Stacey     Consultant Systems Engineer, Munich.     http://berklix.com
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