From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 20:13:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA09310 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:13:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA09305 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:12:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA04545; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:09:59 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603290409.VAA04545@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: DOS hang causes FreeBSD boot To: epamha@epa.ericsson.se (Mark Hannon) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:09:58 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au In-Reply-To: <315B4F21.7B0A@epa.ericsson.se> from "Mark Hannon" at Mar 29, 96 01:46:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Upon rebooting to FreeBSD I usually get a hung system when > the 'routed' daemon starts up, occasionally the system waits > until 'Clearing /tmp' before hanging, and once or twice it has > booted, started X and then crashed after about 30 seconds. > The kernel panic in this case was a page fault. > > This is repeatable, a cold-start doesn't help either. The > only thing that seems to help is to leave the machine powered > down for several minutes before making a cold start. > > Any ideas? What kind of problem could live through a cold-start? 1) PnP settings 2) Interrupt vectors and active interrupts, if your cold-start doesn't properly cause a bus reset to occur and the cards to re-POST themselves. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.