From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 31 21:48: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from evil.2y.net (ztown1-1-55.adsl.one.net [207.78.254.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F3E37BAE4 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:47:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cokane@evil.2y.net) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by evil.2y.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA06944; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 00:52:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 00:52:54 -0500 From: Coleman Kane To: C J Michaels Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: 4.0-S 3/31 KERNEL causes reboot on startup Message-ID: <20000401005254.C6904@evil.2y.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from cjm2@earthling.net on Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:12:58AM -0500 X-Vim: vim:tw=70:ts=4:sw=4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG CJ, if you check /var/log/messages, you can see where the system stopped during the detection phase to see what hardware may have caused the problem. /var/log/messages usually has the last three or four boots of kernel messages in it, providing your syslog.conf is set accordingly... --cokane C J Michaels had the audacity to say: > Hi, > I have a spare machine I've been fooling with trying to learn 4.0-S before I > put it on my main machine. I thought it might be beneficial to 'make world' > every night on this machine to see if any problems arise so I could report > them. > > So, tonight (3/31) I took the following steps. > 1. cvsup RELENG_4 (around 6pm EST) > 2. make buildworld > 3. make installworld > 4. build and install a new kernel > 5. mergemaster > 6. reboot > > During the kernel's hardware detection the system just reboots. No > messages, just reboots. I rebooted with the kernel.GENERIC (4.0-RC4) and > that did boot ok. I rebuild and installed the GENERIC kernel. Same > problem. > > I genuinely don't even know how to proceed in troubleshooting this problem. > Yesterday's kernel (3/30) didn't have the problem. The detection goes so > fast I can't really tell where it's crapping out, the nearest I can tell is > it's either during or right after it detects ed0 (PCI NE2000 card). > > Any pointers would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > -Chris > > P.S. No optimizations were used for this build. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message