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From: Jin Guojun (DSD staff) <jin@george.lbl.gov>
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Subject: Re: SysKonnect and Intel gig boards
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> wrote:
> > The recent two versions of CURRENT are not very usable.
> > CURRENT-20000723 installation floppy is not runnable.
> > So, I backed to previous version CURRENT-20000722 and have a few
> > problems:
> > 
> > (1) recompiled kernel is not loadable. I re-config and recompiled several time
> s.
> 
> What sort of error message do you get from the loader?

Just a "/" and hangs. The soft boot key <Ctl-Alt-Del> will not reboot
the system.

> > (2) The default kernel (installed one) has serious kernel issue --
> > 
> > [109] sleepy.lbl.gov: top
> > top: nlist failed
> > [110] sleepy.lbl.gov: vmstat 1
> > vmstat: undefined symbols:
> >  _cp_time _kmemstatistics _bucket _zlist 
> > [111] sleepy.lbl.gov: uname -a
> > FreeBSD sleepy.lbl.gov 5.0-20000722-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-20000722-CURRENT #0: S
> at Jul 22 12:28:30 GMT 2000     root@usw2.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENER
> IC  i386
> > 
> 
> Are you installing the snapshot from scratch, or are you installing just
> the kernel on an older system?

I always install a system from scratch for security reasons.
Also, the upgrade is not simple as the installation.
So, it is a fresh installation. The machine is no overclocking and
was running 4.x prefectly.

	-Jin


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