From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 19:04:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA09833 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 19:04:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (root@po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA09827; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 19:04:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from protocol.eng.umd.edu (protocol.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.180]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA15751; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:04:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by protocol.eng.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA11010; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:04:33 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: protocol.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:04:33 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@protocol.eng.umd.edu To: "Bradley C. Spatz" cc: questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Natoma PPRO freezes with 2.1.6R. In-Reply-To: <199701100225.VAA20890@freenet1.afn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Bradley C. Spatz wrote: > Hi. > > I just unpacked a SuperMicro P6DNF (Natoma, 440FX) with 1 PPRO 180Mhz > CPU, 64M EDO RAM, 2940UW SCSI, SMC8432BTA ethernet. > > I installed 2.1.6R and began to compile a custom kernel. At various > stages -- either during "make depend" or "make" -- the system simply > freezes. No errors on the console or in /var/log/messages. > > Is there a problem with this motherboard or with Natoma/440FX boards? There isn't any generic Natoma problem, I have one working the SMP kernel, it's running fine, and I've had it nearly non-stop compiling for days. You have to go looking for other causes (bad memory, disk, motherboard, whatever). I know, that's the last thing you wanted to hear ... ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------