From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 18 18:11:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1479337B405 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 18:11:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 117F5786E1; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:41:51 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:41:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: "Andrew C. Hornback" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night Message-ID: <20011119124150.R16195@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <005201c1706f$572afb80$6600000a@ach.domain> <003a01c1709e$e8318e30$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003a01c1709e$e8318e30$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 19 November 2001 at 3:07:07 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Andrew writes: >> You don't need to update the entire operating system if you can >> procure and install the patch. Note, first, that this claim is wrong. > Good. So how do I know that this patch is related to the mysterious > boot I observed? You don't. It just fits the symptoms. >> You may have to ask... but, from what Greg has said, the patch was >> written specifically to make your chipset compatable with FreeBSD. > > Fine, but how do I know that a chipset incompatibility had anything > to do with my problem? You don't. It just fits the symptoms. Note, however, that there's nothing else in this box which is likely to cause the problems. I'm writing this on a very similar machine, running -CURRENT (with the fix), and I haven't had any trouble. The machine has been up for nearly 2 weeks. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message