From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 24 07:55:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA09939 for current-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 07:55:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chess.inetspace.com ([206.50.163.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA09930 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 07:55:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kgor@localhost) by chess.inetspace.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA04350; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 09:54:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 09:54:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199704241454.JAA04350@chess.inetspace.com> From: "Kent S. Gordon" To: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au CC: obiwan@zeppelin.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199704240621.QAA26785@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> (message from David Nugent on Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:21:15 +1000) Subject: Re: Upgrading from 3.0-19970209-SNAP to -current Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.105) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "davidn" == David Nugent writes: >> Well, I was trying to find a link between Gary Clark's >> hardware/software and mine, but there didn't seem to be >> one. I've got a 6x86-133, 64megs using IDE, he was also using >> IDE, so, I would hate think this was some massive bug in the >> IDE code. I have Cyrix 596-100, 16MB, bustek 445 and New kernel's do not successfully boot (die in detection of boot device. Message vary with -current date and kernel options. Normally just a hang, but I have seen disk detected as unknown device. I tried tracing it using DDB but was unsuccesfully in finding anything useful). scsi detection. My guess is that we are triggering a VM bug. > Actually, this is my suspect as well. I don't even think NFS can > be blamed here. It is set up as an NFS server, but it is rarely > used. I can't imagine that a couple of inactive daemons might be > triggering it (although stranger things have happened :-)). > It might even be a bug that's been there all along, but the > lite2 merges have brought it to light. > Come to think of it, all of the other -current machines I run > and work fine are scsi, or in one case, mostly scsi - aha and > aic types. Hmm. I have a PP-180, 64MB, mainly ide system that works great. > Ok, it looks like only a coredump will tell, and right now > that's a matter of waiting it out. :) Kent S. Gordon Senior Software Engineer iNetSpace Co. voice: (972)851-3494 fax:(972)702-0384 e-mail:kgor@inetspace.com