From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 30 05:31:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA28925 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 05:31:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA28915 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 05:31:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from niente (unverified [194.95.214.185]) by www.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:28:02 +0100 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980130142134.02f6aeec@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de> X-Sender: moos@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:21:34 -0100 To: Greg Lehey From: Malte Lance Subject: Re: system unstable, how to make it stable again ? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" At 09:12 30.01.98 +1030, you wrote: >This sounds like hardware to me. I can't see how the modifications >you made could cause this to happen > >You could try building a kernel with the kernel debugger, and see if >you can get it into the debugger when it freezes, but I'd guess that >there's some hardware problem behind it. Would say "Yes". But on the other hand, Win95 does not crash on this machine. Ok ok it does not mean anything. >What's the hardware >configuration? FreeBSD-2.1.5 (nooo, dont tell me to upgrade) P-133 64 MB ATI-GPT-PCI 2 MB AHA 2940 4 GB Fujitsu HD (SCSI) 4 GB IBM HD (SCSI) 1 GB IBM HD (SCSI) Sony-SDT-7000 DAT-Streamer (SCSI) Iomega ZIP (SCSI) 6x CDROM (SCSI) Iomega Floppystreamer (Tape 250) SB-16 NE-2000 ASUS MB AVM-Fritz ISDN-card At least my question could be reduced to: Is it possible to get a running system without anything else, like bootstrapping a compiler ? Malte Lance malte@webmore.com > >Greg >