Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:35:46 -0800 From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation failure [finally] seen with 4.5-RC3 Message-ID: <20020127023546.GA5153@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <47299.1012013659@winston.freebsd.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0201251746290.6863-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net> <47299.1012013659@winston.freebsd.org>
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Hey Jordan,
Did you run some more installs on this piece of hardware? Without
a more concrete failure case I don't think that it makes sense to
delay the release. As it stands right now, we have very little to go
on, so it's not very likely that delaying the release would help to
track this down.
- Murray
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:54:19PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> This particular machine is surrounded by Macs. I don't have anything to plug
> its serial port into. :-)
>
> - Jordan
>
> P.S. I suppose I could revive my Vaio.
>
> > 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
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > --
> >
> > John L. Utz III
> > john@utzweb.net
> >
> > Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life
> >
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