From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 11:34:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B036E1539B for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:34:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00071; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:33:58 +0100 (MET) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA02830; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:33:57 +0100 (MET) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.2/8.9.1) id UAA55636; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:33:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19990316203357.C55611@sr.se> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:33:57 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Ralf Meyer Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: System freezes on reboot Reply-To: flygt@sr.se References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Ralf Meyer on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 04:02:44PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 04:02:44PM +0100, Ralf Meyer wrote: > Hello, > > I encounter the following problem with FreeBSD 3.1 on a ThinkPad 770ED: > The machine has 128 MB of RAM. However, if I let FreeBSD determine the > amount of RAM or set MAXMEM=128*1024, the machine freezes on every > reboot attempt. Occasionally it also freezes during normal operation. > Freezing means that even the (so-called) power switch does not work > and I have to press the reset button with the help of a ballpen. > > One solution of the problem is to set the amount of RAM to 96 MB in > the kernel configuration file. In that case none of the problems shows > up. However I would prefer using the full memory as well as > understanding the problem. Is this a known problem? Is it a ThinkPad > specific problem? Might there be a memory defect? > > Opinions, solutions and suggestions are appreciated. I have exactly the same type of machine. I wasn't as innovative as you, and got no answers whatsoever here, so I ended up (unfortunately) with installing RedHat 5.2 which works without any problems. Pity since I run FreeBSD on all other boxes. -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message