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From: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@brutele.be>
To: Ruben de Groot <ruben@1729.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG,
	Olivier DAVY <olivier.davy@free.fr>
Subject: Re: HELP : GENERIC kernel compilation bug
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I had exactly the same problem with my previous hardware, and after hours
of brainstorming and RAM chip swapping, I found out that the CPU (or the
mainboard, i'll never know) was flakey.

Regards,
Jean-Yves

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 05:20:18PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> This kind of nondeterministic behaviour is in my experience allways related
> to a hardware problem. Most likely you have some bad RAM. Why don't you try
> swapping memorychips and see if it changes anything.
> 
> > I have a tricky bug during the compilation of the GENERIC kernel.
> > Notice that I have tried several times to compile this generic kernel
> (provided with FreeBSD and not customized by myself), and that I obtained
> different errors.
> > Is the compilation non deterministic ?

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