From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 22: 2:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isua2.iastate.edu (isua2.iastate.edu [129.186.1.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781B614D04 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 22:02:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graphix@iastate.edu) Received: from localhost (graphix@localhost) by isua2.iastate.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA02981; Wed, 5 May 1999 00:02:13 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199905050502.AAA02981@isua2.iastate.edu> To: Gregory Sutter Cc: Kent Vander Velden , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What has happened to FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 May 1999 00:36:19 PDT." <19990504003619.N73741@001101.zer0.org> Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 00:02:13 CDT From: Kent Vander Velden Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19990504003619.N73741@001101.zer0.org>, Gregory Sutter writes: >On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 07:55:40PM -0500, 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 The serious problem of not being able to boot the system after updating the loader stuff is now fixed. The problem was that I had not copied the first 512 bytes from the FreeBSD partition to a file in the NT partition. This file is then used by the NT boot manager. After being stung by this problem twice hopefully I will not forget to do this again. After updating the kernel sources I am going to install a new kernel and hope that the machine remains stable. If it crashes, hopefully the kernel will drop to DDB. 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