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- From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: SLS 0.99 + patches 1 and 2 = cold boot
- Message-ID: <sRBswB1w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 00:00:39 EST
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System
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- I just patched my SLS 0.99 kernel sources with the 0.99.1 and 0.99.2 patches
- from tsx-11 and rebuilt the kernel. I did make two source changes: I
- changed MOUSE_IRQ from 5 to 9 in <linux/busmouse.h> (my mouse being on IRQ2;
- IRQ5 is either COM3 or a QIC02 tape drive, which is going to cause me some
- problems!) and swapped the CTRL and CAPSLOCK keys in keyboard.c (this under
- control of a #define, SWAP_CAPL_CTRL). I then did a "make dep" and "make
- disk". (I had done a "make clean" previously, just before tarring off the
- original kernel sources before installing the 0.99.1 and 0.99.2 patches.
- I'm not a *total* idiot....) I also forced the SVGA_MODE to default to
- normal VGA. I did not attempt to configure lilo. ROOT_DEV was set to
- /dev/hda2 (my Linux partition).
-
- The resulting boot disk printed the usual "Loading..." stuff, then (at the
- point that the SLS boot disk asks for the video mode, occasionally
- indicating a "Wild interrupt? (IRQ9)" because MS-DOS doesn't deconfigure my
- busmouse before a reboot...) it cold boots.
-
- Assuming patch 2 wouldn't have gone out with such a bug :-) , I assume it's
- my attempt to switch the busmouse driver to IRQ9. Is this something to do
- with the PC's interrupt chaining? Should I have used IRQ2 instead? Should
- I give up on Linux kernel hacking? :-) I'm not much of a PC hardware guru,
- so a failure that early in the boot sequence has me pretty well stumped.
-
- ++Brandon
-
- He's BAAAACK! Brandon S. Allbery NOTE NEW ADDRESS!!! kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org
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