Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 15:06:27 +0900 (JST) From: grog@lemis.com To: david@portanc.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic Message-ID: <199708150606.PAA00340@papillon.lemis.com> 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
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