From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 7 11:33:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl [131.155.56.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6DC714E46 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 11:33:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl) Received: from localhost (karelj@localhost) by wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA43402 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 20:33:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl) Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 20:33:40 +0200 (CEST) From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" Reply-To: K.J.Bosschaart@wtb.tue.nl To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange reboot saga In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 May 1999, Alberto de Poo Bas wrote: > > You usualy see a lot of this "ME TOO!" mails, but no one knows realy how > many are having this problem. Well, let's start with a "me too" too... I had the reboot problem about two weeks ago: sudden freezing, reboot, no log message... about 7 or 8 times in one week. It started after going from 2.2.8 to 3.1R. When I CVSUPped from 3.1Release to Stable, I realized that I did something wrong when I compiled my 3.1R kernel: I simply copied my 2.2.8 config file instead of starting out with the GENERIC config file... so in 3.1-Stable I compiled with a config based on the GENERIC provided with 3.1-Stable. I didn't have a reboot anymore since I'm running that kernel, the machine is up now for 6 days. Comparing an old kernel (2.2.x) config with the GENERIC from 3.1, I saw that the options FFS_ROOT, MFS_ROOT and NFS_ROOT are not present in the 2.2.x config file. Since FFS_ROOT is marked with "[keep this!]" I suppose it's very important. I don't know exactly what is the impact of omitting this option, but could it have something to do with the mysterious reboots?? I didn't look yet for more differences... Regards, Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message