Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 07:53:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net> To: kent@iastate.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What has happened to FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905040752390.995-100000@bytor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199905040055.TAA02799@isua2.iastate.edu>
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What are the kinds of things you are doing when it crashes, what version
of FreeBSD are you running? can't help unless we know a few basics ;)
-Pat
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On Mon, 3 May 1999, Kent Vander Velden wrote:
>
> Lately (over the past few months) I have been having numerous
> problems with FreeBSD. Well, actually only a single problem that is
> the machine (dual pentium 133) crashes very often. In hope of finding
> a stable release of -STABLE (yes, my "-stable" machine is lucky to last
> a day before a reboot) I have been running cvsup and building and
> installing a new kernel at least once a week. Please note that also
> while I have the ddb option enabled a kernel crash never starts ddb.
> Also, even though I have a crash device set no core image is ever
> generated. Now, the latest kernel would not boot for some reason and
> displayed an error before falling to the loader prompt. Having seen
> that changes had been made to the loader I tried compiling
> /usr/src/sys/boot/* and installing the files. After all the pieces
> were installed I did a `disklabel -B da0` and rebooted thinking that
> this would solve the latest problem. Now I never see the loader and
> the machine reboots immediately.
>
> Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ---
> Kent Vander Velden
> kent@iastate.edu
>
>
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