Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:24:59 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950 Message-ID: <E99148AF-5539-4B7D-85BD-4ADE4C806432@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <200901281245.17970.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <497ECECD.2060403@fxclub.org> <200901270732.57972.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <200901281424.50680.kirk@strauser.com> <200901281245.17970.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Mel wrote: > On Wednesday 28 January 2009 11:24:50 Kirk Strauser wrote: >> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 10:32:57 Mel wrote: >>> Even though 7.1 has bugfixes, this kind of guesswork causes a lot of >>> downtime for OP without any certainty that things will be any >>> better. >> >> If by "lots" you mean "2 minutes for a reboot", I'd be inclined to >> agree. > > Right, you really want to do buildworld on a production machine that > experiences random reboots. That would make the situation worse how? The worst case is that it fails during installkernel, leaving him to boot from kernel.old. -- Kirk Strauser
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