From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 17: 7:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E4114CB5; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 17:07:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA18089; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:37:31 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA69167; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:37:29 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990317113726.Q429@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:37:26 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Patrick Seal , Ralf Meyer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System freezes on reboot References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Patrick Seal on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 04:28:54PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 16 March 1999 at 16:28:54 -0500, Patrick Seal wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Ralf Meyer wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I encounter the following problem with FreeBSD 3.1 on a ThinkPad 770ED: >> The machine has 128 MB of RAM. However, if I let FreeBSD determine the >> amount of RAM or set MAXMEM=128*1024, the machine freezes on every >> reboot attempt. Occasionally it also freezes during normal operation. >> Freezing means that even the (so-called) power switch does not work >> and I have to press the reset button with the help of a ballpen. >> >> One solution of the problem is to set the amount of RAM to 96 MB in >> the kernel configuration file. In that case none of the problems shows >> up. However I would prefer using the full memory as well as >> understanding the problem. Is this a known problem? Is it a ThinkPad >> specific problem? Might there be a memory defect? >> >> Opinions, solutions and suggestions are appreciated. > > Hmm, Interesting. My Dell Latitude Freezes during a reboot, so does > someone else's Latitude I know. I never thought that I might be the > MAXMEM. I think you missed the point that Ralf was disabling 32 MB of memory in order to get it to work at all. > I have it in my kernel and my Laptop freezes too. > > Any developers have any ideas? ISTR hearing something about this before. If you don't get any answers from the mailing lists, you should enter a PR. man send-pr for further details. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message