From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 12 15:07:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA27497 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 15:07:08 -0700 Received: from wcarchive.cdrom.com (wcarchive.cdrom.com [192.216.191.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA27491 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 15:07:06 -0700 Received: from squid.umd.edu (squid.umd.edu [129.2.40.6]) by wcarchive.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA15822 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 15:06:58 -0700 Received: by squid.umd.edu (5.65/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA01185; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 18:11:26 -0400 From: fcawth@squid.umd.edu (Fred Cawthorne) Message-Id: <9504122211.AA01185@squid.umd.edu> Subject: Re: 940804 (vaporware ;-) reboots the system either: To: agl@redline.ru (Anthony Graphics) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 95 18:11:26 EDT Cc: freebsd-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: ; from "Anthony Graphics" at Apr 12, 95 11:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > again, the system worked for weeks under load in linux, > now FreeBSD reboots it during the memory test :-[ > I tryed to increase wait states in the CMOS to MAX values to no avail :-[ > Any pointers would be welcome. Somebody told me that disabling > cache on the motherboard could help: but I don't want to do > such a stupid tricks. (You should at least try it to see if it works, you don't have to leave it that way but it will let you eliminate alot of other possible causes like corrupt binaries, bad memory, etc...) > Thanx in advance for any pointers. > AGL > I had a system that did this too. I think it is the UNI chipset's fault. (It only got past the memory check if the external cache was turned off) I think it is a rather rare chipset... Anyway, it used to die when trying to boot 2.0 +, until the latest snap that doesn't have the memory test in it (: The memory test must have snarfed up something in there... Now, it seems to work fine. I did a couple of kernel recompiles, etc.. and it is fine. The system is an AMD 486-66 UNI chipset with 8 megs ram and an IDE disk. So, I suggest that you try the 950322 snap. Fred.