Re: worst FreeBSD EVAR. (crash on boot)

From: Robert Watson (rwatson_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 02/28/04

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To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>

    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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