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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:18:45 +0200
From: Stefan Petri <petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
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To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
CC: jan@todonix.ping.de, bugs@FreeBSD.org
In-reply-to: "Rodney W. Grimes"'s message of Thu, 22 Jun 1995 10:25:21 -0700 (PDT) <199506221725.KAA06690@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Subject: 2.05R reboot hangs
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Hi!

> > > sometimes the reboot hangs on an 486-DX4-100 PCI (ASUS4SP3G - Board).
 
> > CHeck that you have your external cache set to write-through mode,
> > and ISA GAT mode disabled in the BIOS setup screens.

Rodney>	Have you customized the kernel for the machine?  Or are you running
Rodney>	the GENERIC kernel.  I have had 2 sites report ASUS-PCI/I-486SP3G boot
Rodney>	hangs when using the GENERIC kernel

Rodney>	Have you triple checked your SCSI bus termination, and when the hang
Rodney>	happens does your SCSI drive LED tend to be on solid indicating a
Rodney>	scsi bus hang?

I also have an 486-DX4-100 PCI ASUS SP3G, and with 2.0.5, reboot from
GENERIC kernel hangs on about every 2nd try. This was never a problem
with the 950412-SNAP, which I have rebootet remotely about 100 times
without need to run to the machine's console. I have build a
custom kernel only yesterday, I dont know yet if that behaves better.
I have cache-write-back and ISA-GAT-enabled, and my SCSI-bus is
triple-terminated (dont ask why ;-) but is quiescent when reboot
hangs, However, as I said, this was no problem with the SNAP
installation.


							Stefan