From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Mar 12 12:21: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E003637B416 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:20:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA10881; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:20:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2CKKp069124; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:20:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15502.25379.327513.505232@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:20:51 -0700 To: dochawk@psu.edu Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: init 1 causes panic on A21p and A22m In-Reply-To: <200203122015.g2CKFH316828@fac13.ds.psu.edu> References: <15502.19438.274559.552421@caddis.yogotech.com> <200203122015.g2CKFH316828@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > 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