From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 4:53:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bytor.rush.net (bytor.rush.net [209.45.245.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E7814C01 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 04:53:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Received: from localhost (lynch@localhost) by bytor.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA13463; Tue, 4 May 1999 07:53:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 07:53:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Lynch To: kent@iastate.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What has happened to FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <199905040055.TAA02799@isua2.iastate.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking "Wow, everyone looks different in Real Life (tm)"- Nathan Dorfman meeting people at FUNY "Suicide is painless, switching to NT isn't."- Unknown ___________________________________________________________________________ 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message