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- From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux version 0.99 is out
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.065552.21365@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 06:55:52 GMT
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- Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
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- > In <1992Dec13.193812.6958@tc.cornell.edu> torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds) writes:
- >
- > >Linux version 0.99 is now available at nic.funet.fi, in the directory
- > >pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus as both full source and patches against
- > >0.98.6. It will probably show up on the other major sites soon.
- >
- > I download the full source from nic.funet.fi, and ran configure as follows:
- >
- > no kernel math
- > no profiling
- > no std. harddisk
- >
- > yes tcp/ip
- > yes SCSI (disk, tape & cdrom)
- >
- > aha1542 driver
- >
- > yes minix, ext, msdos & iso9660
- > no proc
- >
- > yes serial autoconfig
- > no funny serial hardware
- >
- > ...and then did a make dep, make Image. It compiled w/o incident.
- >
- > When I booted the kernel (off a floppy, not LILO) all went well until just
- > after the disk partition information was read. After getting "partition
- > tables ok" the kernel dies with a NULL reference.
- >
- > the EIP is 8:b754, which according to the map file is inside wake_up in
- > sched.c.
- >
- > My hardware:
- >
- > 486/33 DX, EISA bus
- > 8MB RAM
- > AHA1542-compatible SCSI host (2 disks, 1 tape, 1 cdrom attached)
- >
- > I had no trouble with 0.98-pl6. Any ideas what's gone wrong?
- >
- > -Chris
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