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Subject: Re: panic
In-Reply-To: <199708132036.UAA01153@portanc.com> from David Edwards at "Aug 14, 97 08:31:47 am"
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David Edwards writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am running FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a Pentium 200, with 64K of memory.
>
> Since upgrading to this release, This machine displays a panic ....
> message, and reboots.

To quote from "The complete FreeBSD":

   In particular, if you *do* get a panic and you want to ask, say,
   the FreeBSD hackers, please don't just say ``My system panicked,
   what do I do?''  The answer--if you get one--will be ``What was the
   panic string?''

> When this happens, it doesn't reset the necessary flags  (fsck).

Interesting.

> So I must manually fsck the system.
>
> This problem occurrs even with the Generic Kernel release.
>
> I have regened the system, increasing # of users to 25, and enabling
> sio2 and sio3.

What makes you think that that will help?

> I am  not always watching the machine, when it reboots,
> I just hear a: drive start on reboot.
>
> I have only run 2.2.2 on this Pentium machine.
>
> I was running the previous version of BSD on an INTEL DX4-100.
> I upgraded the BSD OS, and the Hardware at the same time.
>
> Rebooting is no problem, except that it can easily trash my disks.

Has it trashed your disks?

> What are my options here?
>
> o  Can I copy a kernel from FreeBSD 2.2.1 and see if it also panics?

You can, but it won't help you much.

> o How long till the next release.

Real Soon Now.  But it won't help you much.

> o Suggestions and comments would be appreciated.

Take a dump and tell us where the crash is happening.  Take a look in
the online handbook or "The Complete FreeBSD" for how to do that.

Greg