From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 21 13:23:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.79.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 675C237BD0A for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:23:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.79.115]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00662; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:23:15 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00577; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:23:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:23:14 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003212123.OAA00577@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Guido van Rooij Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with reboot on 5.0-current with VAIO In-Reply-To: <20000321211430.A65060@gvr.gvr.org> References: <20000321211430.A65060@gvr.gvr.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message