From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 18 18:30:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A0C37B405; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 18:30:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fAJ2UA509519; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 03:30:10 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <005901c170a2$1cd5efc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Greg Lehey" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <005201c1706f$572afb80$6600000a@ach.domain> <003a01c1709e$e8318e30$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011119124150.R16195@monorchid.lemis.com> Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 03:30:03 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 Okay, I'm not very clear on all these different versions of the OS, and my snooping around the FreeBSD site did not greatly enlighten me. Which version of the OS is the version that would be distributed, say, on boxed CDs, like the version I initially bought at the store? I presume from what I've read that -CURRENT is more volatile than STABLE; how do both of these relate to RELEASE (if there is such a thing--my system mentions RELEASE on the screensaver). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Lehey" To: "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: "Andrew C. Hornback" ; "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 03:11 Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night > 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