Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:37:26 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>, Ralf Meyer <ralf@thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System freezes on reboot Message-ID: <19990317113726.Q429@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903161626550.691-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>; from Patrick Seal on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 04:28:54PM -0500 References: <Pine.A41.4.05.9903161518390.42808-100000@hal6000.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903161626550.691-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>
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On Tuesday, 16 March 1999 at 16:28:54 -0500, Patrick Seal wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Ralf Meyer wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I encounter the following problem with FreeBSD 3.1 on a ThinkPad 770ED: >> The machine has 128 MB of RAM. However, if I let FreeBSD determine the >> amount of RAM or set MAXMEM=128*1024, the machine freezes on every >> reboot attempt. Occasionally it also freezes during normal operation. >> Freezing means that even the (so-called) power switch does not work >> and I have to press the reset button with the help of a ballpen. >> >> One solution of the problem is to set the amount of RAM to 96 MB in >> the kernel configuration file. In that case none of the problems shows >> up. However I would prefer using the full memory as well as >> understanding the problem. Is this a known problem? Is it a ThinkPad >> specific problem? Might there be a memory defect? >> >> Opinions, solutions and suggestions are appreciated. > > Hmm, Interesting. My Dell Latitude Freezes during a reboot, so does > someone else's Latitude I know. I never thought that I might be the > MAXMEM. I think you missed the point that Ralf was disabling 32 MB of memory in order to get it to work at all. > I have it in my kernel and my Laptop freezes too. > > Any developers have any ideas? ISTR hearing something about this before. If you don't get any answers from the mailing lists, you should enter a PR. man send-pr for further details. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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