From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 14 18:27:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD5A16A401 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:27:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists-fbsd@shadypond.com) Received: from mx-outbound01.easydns.com (mailout.easydns.com [205.210.42.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A23213C4BC for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:27:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists-fbsd@shadypond.com) Received: from slider.shadypond.com (69-12-173-117.static.humboldt1.com [69.12.173.117]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx-outbound01.easydns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6F07FA1 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:27:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from slider.shadypond.com (slider.shadypond.com [192.168.1.11]) by slider.shadypond.com (postoffice) with ESMTP id AE9EBB667C for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:27:18 +0000 (UTC) From: Pollywog To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:27:17 +0000 References: <4697C8DA.60705@wlink.com.np> <200707132345.l6DNjRb2023407@eunet.yu> <46990985.8020002@wlink.com.np> In-Reply-To: <46990985.8020002@wlink.com.np> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707141827.17312.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-6.1 bootup hangs after power failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:27:23 -0000 On Saturday 14 July 2007 17:36:05 Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: > > Thank you for your tips. I will download the FreeSBIE live CD tomorrow > and follow it up with your suggestions. > > One thing I find FreeBSD very fussy and sensitive in comparison to Linux > OSes is that whenever there is an power outage, something wrong is bound > to happen. Maybe, it was made to happen this way but living in here over > the other side of the world, we do have to face power outages despite > our best efforts. Before I installed FreeBSD, I had been using PC-BSD on the same laptop on which I now have FreeBSD. I had only been running PC-BSD on the laptop for a little over a week, when it crashed. I rebooted the machine and I had an unbootable system. It would start to boot and then lockup as soon as KDE appeared, so I think the problem wasn't PC-BSD but KDE. I then installed FreeBSD. If this happens again, I will try installing gdm or xdm to see if that fixes the problem. Because of your experience as described in this thread, I think I will put off installing FreeBSD on my desktop machines until I have an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) installed. I don't know if there are certain models of UPS's that will work with FreeBSD better than others.