Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:06:21 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: worst FreeBSD EVAR. (crash on boot) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040228110348.24114E-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20040228124235.GJ56622@elvis.mu.org>
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > So I'm updating from a Dec 5th kernel to today's so as to hopefully > restore the cool pre-Dec 5th ACPI behaviour which was: > Hitting the power button did an orderly shutdown. > > Instead of Dec 5th's behaviour which is: > Randomly (well mostly when I fat finger ^A-n to switch screens) > failing to suspend to disk and then completely locking up. > Hitting power button does an immediate shutdown.. like power OFF, > no orderly shutdown, fsck at boot required, baby jesus cries etc. > > Well now I have a kernel that won't even boot, here's the dmesg from the > Dec 5th kernel with a marker where the panic happens on the newer kernel > (noted by: <<<PANIC HERE ON NEW KERNEL>>) any help would be appreciated. > > Machine is an old laptop, a Dell Latitude, celeron 300, 128 megs of ram. > It seems to crash both with and without ACPI loaded now. I have one of these at work, or something very similar. I'll give it a try on Monday. That said, I booted a kernel from about two weeks ago on it with no problems only a week or so ago. Question: are you running the most recent BIOS update available from Dell? Any chance you have the whole trap message, can figure out what symbol it is, etc? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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