I tried to src upgrade a 6.2-RELEASE system to 6.3-RC3.
When I reboot, it hangs just after describing the disk geometry. No
error messages, even if I boot verbose.
I can recover by booting kernel.old, changing my tag back, cvsup'ing,
building everything...
This appears to be a showstopper
Hugo Silva wrote:
Hey list,
My last move on the server trouble was changing back some sysctl's to
their original values.
Here is how loader.conf and sysctl.conf look now:
(the #commented values were the sysctls active when the server used to
die. one of these was causing the problem,
since the se
I know this may seem a silly suggestion after all the info you've dug up,
but it almost sounds like a bad power supply. I've seen virtually identical
problems with my old dual P2/333 box and it turned out to be the AT
Motherboard power connectors from the power supply that were screwed up and
(note: I'm not subscribed to the list with this email, but I couldn't
send this large mail by my webmail)
Hey list,
Recently my server started failing daily, I though it was because of
high loads. Now it even goes down if completely idle after a few hours.
I *still* don't have the panic message
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 onto a laptop (i386 on a SiS 630 chipset)
but after configuring the kernel it hangs on a page fault whilst probing the
hw (last reported device is the VGA adapter).
I've tried slimming the kernel down without PC card, ethernet and just 1 IDE
channel without jo
