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Date:      Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:19:25 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Strange booting lockups 
Message-ID:  <200101212119.f0LLJP901744@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:32:38 PST." <20010121023238.S69199@canonware.com> 
References:  <20010121023238.S69199@canonware.com>  

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In message <20010121023238.S69199@canonware.com> Jason Evans writes:
: Several of us have started experiencing problems with kernels that won't
: boot.  The symptom is hard to miss: the machine locks up at the spinner
: just before printing the copyright message at the beginning of the boot
: sequence.

I've seen this on laptops that don't clear their RAM for a long time.
I suspect that it is something different, however.  My bug is that the
kernel goes looking for dmesg buffer, finds a bogus pointer and walks
off the edge of the world.  Bang, you are dead.

Warner


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