Re: trouble booting 0.11 (continued)

Previous thread: trouble booting 0.11 (continued) by Derek Lieber on Sunday, January 12, 1992 - 3:39 pm. (1 message)

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To: Derek Lieber <derek@...>, <Linux-activists@...>
Date: Sunday, January 12, 1992 - 4:25 pm

No, this is totally normal: the kernel tries to read from the second
harddisk, and fails. No problem. The reason that 0.10 works, but 0.11
doesn't, is that I changed 0.11 so that it does a hd-reset at bootup,
mostly to test the code. Ok it wasn't so great an idea, but it showed
up the bug in the reset-code.

If you can get linux up and running on some machine (0.10 works, but has
bugs, so 0.11 is better), you can make a new 0.11 that works somewhat
just by changing the line

static int reset = 1;

to

static int reset = 0;

at the head of hd.c, and recompiling the kernel. This works, but
ignores the deeper problem of not being able to reset the disk. I still
think you'd better wait for 0.12: it's ready, but I want to test
everything out for a bit yet. I was still adding things to it
yesterday, now I'm just playing around, and trying to see if 0.12 fails.

Linus

PS. Ignore my warning about bugs in bash-1.10: bash 1.11 came out
yesterday (the day before?), and was very easy to port to linux. I
haven't found any bugs yet.

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