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Subject: Re: 11.1/amd64 hangs on boot
To: Adam <amvandemore@gmail.com>
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On 02/24/18 14:28, Adam wrote:

> You could do a verbose boot.

Thanks.
I've been using FreeBSD for the last 20 years or so, but I didn't know 
about verbose boot.
I'll try this ASAP.



> You can also use the switch to prevent reboot on panic.

That wouldn't help me: when it reboot spontaneosly there was nothing to 
read anyway.



> Is there anything in /var/log/messages?

Of course not: when it hangs it doesn't even finish booting the kernel, 
so it doesn't get to start syslogd.



  bye & Thanks
	av.