Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 20:23:03 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <rocky@ljusdal.net> To: gracchus@inficad.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FBSD 4.1: First Install: microuptime()??? Message-ID: <3A2A9D97.51CE35D3@ljusdal.net>
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--------------6AB587D91E3B9AEDEAC16798 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tom snell wrote: >Well, I took the BSD plunge after 4 years of Linux, and it isn't >pretty. The install itself went OK (from the 4.1 CD's in the BSD >Desktop Edition), but on boot I get a rapidly, then slower, repeating >line, with incrementing values: > >microuptime() went backwards (437.201814 -> 437, -694864070) I have seen this happen several times, thou I have never experienced it myself. The only thing the boxes have had in common, is that they have all been AMD's. Twice, I have seen people take the harddrive out of the AMD machines and put it in a Intel based one, and the error have disappered. I hate to believe it, but could it be that FreeBSD has a problem with certain AMD's? --------------6AB587D91E3B9AEDEAC16798 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Tom snell wrote: <p><i>>Well, I took the BSD plunge after 4 years of Linux, and it isn't</i> <br><i>>pretty. The install itself went OK (from the 4.1 CD's in the BSD</i> <br><i>>Desktop Edition), but on boot I get a rapidly, then slower, repeating</i> <br><i>>line, with incrementing values:</i> <br><i>></i> <br><i>>microuptime() went backwards (437.201814 -> 437, -694864070)</i> <br> <p>I have seen this happen several times, thou I have never experienced it myself. <br>The only thing the boxes have had in common, is that they have all been AMD's. <br>Twice, I have seen people take the harddrive out of the AMD machines and put it in a Intel based one, and the error have disappered. <br>I hate to believe it, but could it be that FreeBSD has a problem with certain AMD's? <br> <br> </html> --------------6AB587D91E3B9AEDEAC16798-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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