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From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option
To: vince@apollo.COSC.GOV (-Vince-)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 10:58:17 +0100 (MET)
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It seems that -Vince- said:
> 	I am experiencing the following problem and the machine just 
> reboots under FreeBSD-current, anyone have any ideas?

Stephan has already  answered part of your  question but I really think you
should wipe away tons of  lines in your  config file for devices you  don't
have !!
 
> wdc1 not found at 0x170
> bt0 not found at 0x330
> uha0 not found at 0x330
> ahc1 not found
> ahb0 not found
> aha0 not found at 0x330
> aic0 not found at 0x340
> nca0 not found at 0x1f88
> nca1 not found at 0x350
> sea0 not found
> wt0 not found at 0x300
> mcd0: timeout getting status
> mcd0 not found at 0x300
> mcd1: timeout getting status
> mcd1 not found at 0x340
> matcdc0 not found at 0xffffffff
> scd0 not found at 0x230
> ie0 not found at 0x360
> ep0 not found at 0x300
> ix0 not found at 0x300
> le0: no board found at 0x300
> le0 not found at 0x300
> lnc0 not found at 0x280
> lnc1 not found at 0x300
> ze0 not found at 0x300
> zp0 not found at 0x300


> 	Here is the kernel configuration:
> 
> #
> # GENERIC -- Generic machine with WD/AHx/NCR/BTx family disks
> #
> #	$Id: GENERIC,v 1.46 1995/06/11 19:31:11 rgrimes Exp $
> #	1995/10/25 14:53:33 vince ASTRO
> #

You're supposed to edit it you know :-)
 

> 	Also, another thing is we have 24 megs of physical memory and 240 
> megs of swap space.  The machine sometimes just locks up instead of 
> rebooting...  Any help would be appreciated.

You'll get some memory back. You  currently have 5  MB (!!) taken by kernel
space... 
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
   FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #5: Mon Oct 30 00:03:29 MET 1995