[openbeos] Re: Booting problems...

Hi again,

Image tested and working OK as long as MTRR support is removed.
Confirming idle-loop halt instruction operational over here: CPU's stay 
cool 8-)

Apart from the usual trouble here (drawing faults in certain 
reproducable areas, fonts being to large and such) there's one new bug 
that wasn't there before: the color palette doesn't get loaded for 8-
bit colorspaces apparantly (black/white sort of image here).

Looking good: KB and mouse seem trouble free for the first time, and 
stability is getting better and better! (happy camper :)

Rudolf.
 



> BTW:
> 
> Both the matrox and nvidia driver don't work: i.e. the MTRR problem 
> is 
> the framebuffer mapping.
> If I remove both drivers and disable SMP I am able to boot into 
> haiku. 
> It works more or less then, BUT
> The screen updates are very slow, happening in horizontal lines 
> (Axel, 
> I told you about these lines), and after a second or so: the lines 
> start to be a complete screen: hence MTRR problems as well here!
> 
> The broken symlink I suspected to halt the boot process was false 
> alarm. Tried drivers in home/config: works OK as well.
> 
> I am now downloading the 9:39PM - 30 jan image from sikosis, will see 
> if that works OK with and without MTRR support.
> 
> Rudolf.
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi guys!
> > 
> > Found the  boot problem on my dual P3 system!!
> > 
> > Adam: please mount the haiku partition (or whatever) and delete the 
> > MTRR support: file
> >  add-ons/kernel/cpu/x86/generic_x86
> > 
> > Leave the drivers all intact, and now try to boot Haiku. Over here 
> > it's 
> > perfectly OK now. No need to disable SMP even!
> > 
> > Axel: could you please checkout MTRR support for dualCPU systems? 
> > is 
> > there something that needs extra attention?
> > 
> > Thanks!!
> > 
> > Rudolf.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Well, this is a dual Xeon system, with hyperthreading (though I 
> > > disable it in 
> > > the boot options when the splash screen starts up).
> > > 
> > > And yeah, it worked a few months ago on the same system :-(
> > > 
> > > Adam
> > > 
> > > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> > > 
> > > Subject: [openbeos] Re: Booting problems...
> > > Date: Saturday 28 January 2006 13:44
> > > From: "Rudolf" <drivers.be-hold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > same here.
> > > Axel tells me that launch_speedup is optional though. My system 
> > > is 
> > > a
> > > dual P3-500: it will boot a bit longer if I disable SMP, but 
> > > still 
> > > it
> > > hangs..
> > > Some time ago it worked though.
> > > 
> > > (two other single CPU systems _do_ work here however).
> > > 
> > > Would be nice if that could get fixed somehow, whatever it is.. :
> > > -)
> > > 
> > > Rudolf.
> > > 
> > > > Has anyone seen this problem before:
> > > >
> > > > bfs: mounted "Haiku" (root node at 524288, device = /dev/disk/
> > > > scsi/
> > > > 1/
> > > > 0/0/1)
> > > > module: Search for file_cache/launch_speedup/v1 failed.
> > > > ** could not open launch speedup!
> > > >
> > > > After that error, the boot process just hangs.
> > > >
> > > > Adam
> > > 
> > > -------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
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