Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:19:37 -0700 From: "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." <bsder@mail.allcaps.org> To: Robert Downes <nullentropy@lineone.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 on EPIA M1000 board Message-ID: <26886C6C-B422-11D8-8FB5-000A95C874EE@mail.allcaps.org> In-Reply-To: <40BB6D84.70202@lineone.net> References: <40BB6D84.70202@lineone.net>
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On May 31, 2004, at 10:38 AM, Robert Downes wrote: > I have had an awful weekend trying to make sense of wild errors that > FreeBSD has been throwing on my VIA EPIA M1000 board. > > 5.0 seemed to be going fine, until I tried to make buildworld using > 5.2.1 sources. Then it crashed and reset halfway through. The second > attempt worked, so I built and installed a 5.2.1 kernel. Then the fun > began. Errors correlated with extensive disk activity often point to a power supply problem. This is especially the case for 7200RPM drives as they suck down quite a bit of transient power while spinning up. You might want to take your EPIA board setup and put it into a standard 300W ATX case and see if the problems continue. However, I wouldn't discount an actual hardware problem. I had an EPIA-ME6000 board which would spontaneously hang when running RedHat Linux 9.0, FreeBSD 5.1 or WinXP SP2. I never did get the issue tracked down. -a
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