Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:20:51 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: dochawk@psu.edu Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: init 1 causes panic on A21p and A22m Message-ID: <15502.25379.327513.505232@caddis.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200203122015.g2CKFH316828@fac13.ds.psu.edu> References: <15502.19438.274559.552421@caddis.yogotech.com> <200203122015.g2CKFH316828@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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> > > The random freezes are gone (seemed to be a heat-related ide problem), > > > but init 1 still causes a panic. I can, however, write to my dos > > > partition without a panic. > > > What exactly is 'init 1' supposed to do? > > Oh, that :) > > It drops from multi-user to single-user mode. Well I'll be. 'init 1' is normally a SysV thing (BSD boxes never used to do anything), but sure enough it did shut the box down to single-user. I learned something new today. (Hint, don't try doing this when you're in the middle of replying to email. :) :) > I'm assuming that there's some kind of mount/remount/dismount/magic > going on that lets the IDE circuitry do something weird, but I'm not > certain--and this hypothesis came while I was getting spurious spinups > of the CD before a freeze. On my T21 this works fine (even when you did it unexpectedly, see above)> > In the substitute machine, there's no more spinups, but one of the two > operations that would trigger a panic still does so . . . FreeBSD doesn't do any mount magic when going into single-user mode. Nate ps. The BSD way of doing this would be 'shutdown now'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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