Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:54:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Checklist for testing new -4.x kernels ( -current ). Message-ID: <199903141954.LAA93753@apollo.backplane.com>
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Exceptions are made for people who really know what they are doing, verses
only think that they know what they are doing :-)
* Do not use any loadable modules, compile the needed modules into the
kernel directly. To double check, run 'kldstat' after booting the
system and make sure that only the kernel is listed.
* Make sure to install the new boot blocks and new /boot directory from
the latest source.
* Large 'maxusers' kernel configurations ( > 128 ), or kernels
with >= 512MB of ram have experienced instability in the past, be sure
you are using the latest kernel and try lowering the maxusers
paramater to 64 first, before reporting the crash.
* If weird crashes occur with the splash screen, try disabling it.
* If weird crashes occur during boot, try diasbling the parallel port
stuff and see if that fixes the problem.
* When reporting crashes, please include information on the machine's
configuration including any special devices ( such as VN ) that you
may be using, and your disk configuration ( df ), and the memory &
device configuration ( dmesg ).
* When reporting crashes that occur from testing -- for example, you
are testing the system by running buildworlds, please include the
exact test script / make / whatever that you are doing along with the
system configuration info.
* Make sure your systems are backed up.
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