Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:39:50 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: nsg@netop.jaring.my (IT Security) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Kernel not stable ? (fwd) Message-ID: <19970311143950.WR54034@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.970311194344.20428B-100000@netop.jaring.my>; from IT Security on Mar 11, 1997 19:44:44 %2B0800 References: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.970311194344.20428B-100000@netop.jaring.my>
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As IT Security wrote: > Therefore I later tried to boot the server using kernel.GENERIC and I can > login again but of course the PS/2 mouse was disabled. You don't even need to rebuild a kernel for this. Simply boot with -c, and enable the psm0 device. It's in the GENERIC kernel, but disabled by default (since some keyboard controllers on machines without a PS/2 mouse port tend to jam otherwise). > The next thing that I did was changing the IP address of my server > because I have to move it to another subnet (I edited the > /etc/sysconfig file). .. rebooted the system. During the boot-up process > the machine has to wait for quite a long time when it reaches netstart > process. I'm very sure there is nothing wrong with my router > configuration and connection because I have other machines (NT, Linux and > BSDI) running on the same subnet. Your resolv.conf has became stale after changing the primary IP address. Also, make sure /etc/sysconfig does use IP addresses, not hostnames to setup the interfaces or the static routes. This avoids chicken-and-egg problems. > Unfortunately this is not the real headache. The system is very > intermittent. After leaving the machine for a while i couldn't ping > anymore except to itself. What ethernet adapter? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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