From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 30 10:37:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA18882 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 10:37:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU [128.250.1.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA18867 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 10:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cat.cs.mu.OZ.AU by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU with SMTP (5.83--+1.3.1+0.51) id AA17139; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 03:37:01 +1000 (from btherl@students.cs.mu.oz.au) Received: (from btherl@localhost) by cat.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.8.6/8.8.6) id DAA15081 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 03:37:00 +1000 (EST) From: Brian Timothy HERLIHY Message-Id: <199707301737.DAA15081@cat.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Subject: lockups, reboots To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 03:36:59 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, Last night I installed FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE onto my amd 486 dx4/100, and some very odd things have been happening. Firstly, the boot disk for installation would not boot until I switched the cpu cache off. Once all was installed, things seemed to be working until I tried to compile cfs (crypto file system). The system locked solid; this is reproducible. Also, while transferring files via ftp over slip, it rebooted about 1 hour ago. (cpu cache was on) Is this something to do with using 2.2.2-RELEASE, or is it more likely to be my particular system? I am now deciding whether to install linux or a more stable freeBSD on the system (I already have two linux 2.0.30, very reliable, never crash unless I do something dumb :) Or are there any bios settings I should tweak? Switching off cpu cache halves the speed, so that's not very good :( Thanks, Brian