From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 25 20:45:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jupiter.linuxengine.net (jupiter2.linuxengine.net [209.61.188.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9678837B417; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 20:45:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from jupiterweb.commercevault.com (jupiterweb.commercevault.com [209.61.179.16] (may be forged)) by jupiter.linuxengine.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g0Q4inv22277; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 22:44:49 -0600 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 22:44:49 -0600 (CST) From: John Utz X-X-Sender: john@jupiter.linuxengine.net To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: re@FreeBSD.ORG, Subject: Re: Installation failure [finally] seen with 4.5-RC3 In-Reply-To: <47299.1012013659@winston.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > This particular machine is surrounded by Macs. I don't have anything to plug > its serial port into. :-) serial2usb adapter? i actually just saw one at computerstop and wondered wtf anybody would want them for.... silly me, computer accessiry manufacturer are just *dieing* to service the lucrative mac/bsd crossover market and here i am mocking their efforts.... > - Jordan > > P.S. I suppose I could revive my Vaio. umm, i'd say this is a tossup with the adapter idea....the adapter would be theoretically less work...but u dont need to go to the store if you take this route.... > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > > > Unfortunately, this one seems to be in the "heisenbug" category which > > > is why I didn't flag it as a show-stopper when it started getting > > <...> > > > I also believe it's actually a kernel panic or hard hang vs sysinstall > > > > if it's a kernel panic, wouldnt you see some indication thereof on the > > serial port? or is that sort of functionality not available in an install > > kernel? > > > > just my us$ 0.02.... > > > > johnu > > > > > - Jordan > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > > -- > > > > John L. Utz III > > john@utzweb.net > > > > Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life > > > -- John L. Utz III john@utzweb.net Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message