Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 18:03:20 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Jason Craig <freebsd@b0rg.net>, Jason Craig <nemesys@home.com>, Jason <jcraig@servtech.com> Cc: FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Compile new kernel with MCA support Message-ID: <19991119180320.65386@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <001701bf32dd$4f76a500$d3b17018@wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com>; from Jason Craig on Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 05:27:15PM -0500 References: <001701bf32dd$4f76a500$d3b17018@wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com>
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[moved to -current] On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 17:27:15 -0500, Jason Craig wrote: On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 17:32:20 -0500, Jason Craig wrote: On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 17:38:07 -0500, Jason wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a few FreeBSD machines that I am playing around with now, and have > come across a nice old IBM PC Server 320 with dual P90 processors and 64MB > of RAM i would also like to utilize. > > I am currently using 4.0-19991113-CURRENT generic kernel, and things are > working great. > > However, I tried to compile a custom kernel to weed out any unwanted > devices, and to enable SMP and have have run into a problem. After > compiling the kernel using the standard procedure, I rebooted it, and it > panic'd after doing the kernel config. > > I tried removing most of the entries from /boot/kernel.conf, only to find it > still panics saying something about the MCA bus. > > Am I missing something? Yes, probably http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. To quote: Should I ask -questions or -hackers? Two mailing lists handle general questions about FreeBSD, FreeBSD-questions and FreeBSD-hackers. In some cases, it's not really clear which group you should ask. The following criteria should help for 99% of all questions, however: If the question is of a general nature, ask FreeBSD-questions. Examples might be questions about intstalling FreeBSD or the use of a particular UNIX utility. If you think the question relates to a bug, but you're not sure, or you don't know how to look for it, send the message to FreeBSD-questions. 6. Specify as much information as possible. This is a difficult area, and we need to expand on what information you need to submit, but here's a start: In nearly every case, it's important to know the version of FreeBSD you're running. This is particularly the case for FreeBSD-CURRENT, where you should also specify the date of the sources, though of course you shouldn't be sending questions about -CURRENT to FreeBSD-questions (...) If your system panics, don't say ``My system panicked'', say (for example) ``my system panicked with the message 'free vnode isn't'''. 7. If you do all this, and you still don't get an answer, there could be other reasons. For example, the problem is so complicated that nobody knows the answer, or the person who does know the answer was offline. If you don't get an answer after, say, a week, it might help to re-send the message. If you don't get an answer to your second message, though, you're probably not going to get one from this forum. Resending the same message again and again will only make you unpopular. One that's not in there: if you're running -CURRENT, come with some *clever* questions. -CURRENT isn't for beginners. In your case, you sent three messages in 11 minues. That's a good way to make yourself unpopular, especially when you're running exotic hardware which not many people know. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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