From NetBSD-Admin@icecube.rain.com Tue Jun 29 18:51:22 1993 Subject: whine :) To: netbsd-amiga@icecube.rain.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 338 Sender: NetBSD-Admin@icecube.rain.com Err this might sound like whining, but I hate the colors of the console :) During those long nightly hours of hacking with NetBSD my poor eyes hurt from that glowing white (and small) text against dark background. I'm not even suggesting anything, just makeing a notice :) Keep up the good work. -Juha -- // kaltsi@vipunen.hut.fi From NetBSD-Admin@icecube.rain.com Tue Jun 29 20:15:57 1993 Subject: Kernel built, but panics? To: netbsd-amiga@icecube.rain.com (NetBSD on Amiga) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Sender: NetBSD-Admin@icecube.rain.com I have managed to rebuild the kernel using the latest sys source (366?). My gcc, sh, gnumake, etc. setup still has a few problems, so I had to play some games with the Makefile, but I managed to get all the way through to a new vmunix. I did notice another problem with the Makefile built by config. For the target subr_mcount.o, it does not give any commands, like the ${NORMAL_C} that most everything else has, so it never compiled this file. I just added the ${NORMAL_C} to get past that. When I booted vmunix.ARB under 2.1 it came up with a "more" readable font. This time it was very tall, but still had the top and bottom pixels chopped off. It was easy to tell what the letters were suppose to be compared to what I had been getting under 2.1. If I boot under 1.3, I get what looks like a Topaz font, easy to read and I did not manage to build dumpfont and use it. So I don't think the default font is as bad as Markus makes it sound. In any case, on to the next problem. Either way I boot the kernel, it shows some intial information, then pauses while I guess it is probing the SCSI bus. Then it starts to display some more information and it looks like it paniced, since a register dump flys by on the display. This is immediately followed by a reboot of the Amiga. So the question is how do I get the display to slow down or better yet stop before it reboots. I need to see what is being displayed to know what caused the panic. If I can't figure it out, I imagine Markus would like to know what was in the register dump in order to provide some hints. By the way, I seem to be the only one asking about building the kernel. Has anyone else got it to work such that you can succesfully boot the new kernel? -- Alan Bair AMCU DSCS Motorola, Inc. (Design Software & Mail Stop OE-320 Computer Services) 6501 William Cannon Dr. West Austin, TX 78735-8598 abair@amcu-tx.sps.mot.com