Re: it works!!! (almost)

[Roman Z. <zi...@fh...>]

Hi,

> > Yesterday I got 2.3.99pre8 running, I could start an init shell, do a ls
> > and go to bed. :-)
> 
> Now, tell us, what was the showstopper?

A wrong entry in the hash table, the usual assumption that all memory
starts at physical address zero. :(
The problem was, that it had such a strange effect, the cpu did basically
nothing (visibly) for about a minute after the hash table entry was
updated. There was no further page fault for that, so I did not expect
that the hash table entry was wrong. And as soon the first page fault from
user space happened, I saw that the entry was updated, it returned and
after that I got machine check exception from the interrupt handler...

bye, Roman