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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:02:13 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: worst FreeBSD EVAR. (crash on boot)
Message-ID:  <20040228230213.GK56622@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040228110348.24114E-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20040228124235.GJ56622@elvis.mu.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040228110348.24114E-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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* Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> [040228 08:07] wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > 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? 

Unlikely sir.  But y'know 6 months ago it all worked just fine.

Every peripheral I cared about worked, and hitting power did an orderly
shutdown.

> 
> Any chance you have the whole trap message, can figure out what symbol it
> is, etc?

How can I do that?

thank you,
-- 
- Alfred Perlstein
- Research Engineering Development Inc.
- email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684



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