From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 27 00:41:00 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 995B316A407 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:41:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FCF613C491 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:41:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay5.apple.com (relay5.apple.com [17.128.113.35]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0R0exRl028586; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:40:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay5.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay5.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id C13B429C003; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:40:59 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807123-a335abb0000039f2-a5-45ba9f9bb38d Received: from [17.214.13.96] (unknown [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay5.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id A9DFC30400B; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:40:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200701261836.14983.jvender@owensboro.net> References: <200701261415.11046.jvender@owensboro.net> <200701261804.38744.jvender@owensboro.net> <200701261836.14983.jvender@owensboro.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:40:59 -0800 To: Joe Vender X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 & 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting 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, 27 Jan 2007 00:41:00 -0000 On Jan 26, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Joe Vender wrote: >> The fact that you can shutdown within Linux suggests that your >> hardware does have the capability, so it's just a matter of figuring >> out what's different. Note that you might find that trying to run >> FreeBSD 4.11 to be informative, as the defaults for that older >> version might correspond with your hardware better, although, 4.11 is >> at the end of it's supported lifespan... > > I've been seriously thinking about getting a copy of the legacy > FBSD 5.5 > that's on the website. Maybe there isn't a difference between it > and the 6.2 > as far as this powerdown issue is concerned. You're likely to have better luck with 4.11 than 5.2; if you want to try a 5.x release, go with 5.5, as the early 5.x releases were only so-so in terms of stability before 5.3... -- -Chuck