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Subject: Re: 5.1-CURRENT rebooting (multile systems) -- How to troubleshoot?
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Tom Parquette wrote:

> My question is, if the system fails (I'm assuming these are panics) how
> do I get the machine to NOT automatically reboot so I can copy down the
> failure information?  (Unless these are logged somewhere I have not
> found yet.)

Try hooking up a serial console and logging a system run with "boot -v",
overnight. Make sure that you have all of the kernel debug options in
GENERIC in your kernel as they will provide insight that can help trace
the problem.

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >