From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 25 03:05:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C80816A4CC for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:05:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: from mail.dslr.net (mail.dslreports.com [209.123.192.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7920943D46 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:05:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dslr.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D180435B0 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:05:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.dslr.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (coral.dslreports.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15358-07 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:05:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail.dslr.net (Postfix, from userid 997) id 165B0435B2; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:05:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [124.7.98.216]) by mail.dslr.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91530435B0; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:05:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <449DFD6D.5090301@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:35:17 +0530 From: Subhro Kar Organization: iViZ Techno Solutions Pvt. Ltd. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Cruickshank References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dslr.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems running freebsd 6.0+ 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: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:05:13 -0000 Tom Cruickshank wrote: > Hello, Hello Tom, > I'm hoping is the correct mailing list for this, if not, please feel > free to direct me to a more appriopriate one. You are on the correct mailing list :-). > I have a box which I'm trying to run FreeBSD on. I can run FreeBSD 5.4 > on it > without any problems, but if I try run > FreeBSD 6.0 or 6.1, at any point in time while the system is running (could > be on load up or when system is already loaded), > the computer just *freezes*. The only thing which can be done > afterwards is > a cold reboot. I hav checked the /var/log/messages > file and haven't been able to find anything wrong. > > Hardware specs: > > Motherboard: A7N8X-X The information you have provided is not complete. We would be requiring more information to understand what is going wrong. For a start can you show us a copy of dmesg and your kernel config file (if you are not running a GENERIC kernel). Thanks and Best Regards Subhro