Digital HiNote Ultra 2000 laptop

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 29 June 2005 06:33 am, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > 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.

It's probably going to be a lot more useful to get the detailed panic messages 
from a RELENG_5 kernel and go from there as a lot has changed since 5.2.

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