Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:31:44 +0200 From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crashes with Promise controller Message-ID: <iuibu0$oi0$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <52F39CE0-EEC7-4180-8186-BF8696AF279D@lassitu.de> References: <it56el$tqa$1@dough.gmane.org> <52F39CE0-EEC7-4180-8186-BF8696AF279D@lassitu.de>
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On 18.06.2011 18:49, Stefan Bethke wrote: >> I have to slightly explain the word "crash" here: I don't actually >> have to hard reset the system myself. My box just does a reboot by >> itself. No filesystem is unmounted cleanly and because the machine >> isn't really new and powerful fsck takes pretty long. > > I can't help you with your controllers, but anyone in a position to > help will likely want to know if the box simply resets, or if the > kernel panics. And if there are going to be any patches, you most > certainly will want to get familiar with the debugger to help try > stuff out. The handbook has information on how to enable crash dumps > and getting the kernel debugger going. If you haven't done so > already, try and get a serial console going, it helps tremendously to > be able to cut&paste debugger info instead of trying to hand > transcribe it. As far as I can tell so far there isn't any realy kernel panik. But the machine resets alright. All I can find in /var/log/messages is what I have already written. :-( A serial console is easy enough to set up on a Sun for example, but in this case, I am running a simple AthlonXP, which has nothing for that sort of help. I would need a special card for that and those cose quite a bit. :-( Regards, Chris
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