From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 3 5:43:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from teapot25.domain0.bigpond.com (teapot25.domain0.bigpond.com [139.134.5.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6FC9A37C07D for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 05:43:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Greg@fatcanary.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by teapot25.domain0.bigpond.com (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id ya398812 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 22:44:04 +1000 Received: from WYBH-T-005-p-89-157.tmns.net.au ([203.54.89.157]) by mail0.bigpond.com (Claudes-Silly-MailRouter V2.8a 13/24299); 03 Jul 2000 22:44:03 Received: from thefridge (the-fridge.gwork.org.au [192.168.0.2]) by the-toaster.gwork.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA00560; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 22:22:41 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from Greg@FatCanary.com.au) Message-ID: <003e01bfe4ec$2e813e20$0200a8c0@gwork.org.au> Reply-To: "Greg Work" From: "Greg Work" To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" , References: Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 22:12:42 +0930 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey Steve... do you mean loader as in BootEasy (or whatever it is called) or just prior to the "twirling baton" stage? if the latter - how can you bypass it? Cheers G. -------------------------------------- Greg Work Email: Greg@FatCanary.com.au -------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 6:25 PM Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 > Hi, > > A possibility (only). I have two AMD K6-2 boxes currently both of which > work fine. BUT on one of them if I use the loader then I get crashes, > unrecoverable disc errors and all sorts of nasty things. Booting straight into > the kernel is fine, I can run forever under heavy load. On the other machine I > have no problems at all with or without loader. > > See if not using the loader makes any difference, if so there may be > something trackable. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message