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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:24:59 -0600
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950
Message-ID:  <E99148AF-5539-4B7D-85BD-4ADE4C806432@strauser.com>
In-Reply-To: <200901281245.17970.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
References:  <497ECECD.2060403@fxclub.org> <200901270732.57972.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <200901281424.50680.kirk@strauser.com> <200901281245.17970.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>

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On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Mel wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 January 2009 11:24:50 Kirk Strauser wrote:
>> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 10:32:57 Mel wrote:
>>> Even though 7.1 has bugfixes, this kind of guesswork causes a lot of
>>> downtime for OP without any certainty that things will be any  
>>> better.
>>
>> If by "lots" you mean "2 minutes for a reboot", I'd be inclined to  
>> agree.
>
> Right, you really want to do buildworld on a production machine that
> experiences random reboots.


That would make the situation worse how?  The worst case is that it  
fails during installkernel, leaving him to boot from kernel.old.
-- 
Kirk Strauser




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