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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:23:14 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem with reboot on 5.0-current with VAIO
Message-ID:  <200003212123.OAA00577@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000321211430.A65060@gvr.gvr.org>
References:  <20000321211430.A65060@gvr.gvr.org>

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> When I use reboot(8) to reboot my Vaio z505sx, it waits nicely for
> the bufdaeon and the syncer to stop. Then the screen goes blank
> and the system completely hangs. Unplugging the battery and power
> is the only way to gte it booting again. It used to work fine with a 
> 4.0-current of some 3 weeks ago but a 5.0-current from today gives the above
> result. 
> Does anyone have a clue?

Is this use VM86?  The Thinkpads have this problem when the amount of
memory that FreeBSD expects is larger than what actually exists, due to
memory sizing issues.  VM86 is supposed to fix this, although I've not
run 5.0 to check it...




Nate


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