Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:33:57 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL> To: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.1000321103041.12002A-100000@csd> In-Reply-To: <20000321032955.U15100@reptiles.org>
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jim Mercer wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:14:47AM +0200, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > I didn't add kernel debugger, just kernel dumps. All the time it takes on > > a reboot is the time your disks take to copy RAM to swapspace. Even with > > your RAM size it should be less than a minute. > > so, how does one do this? > > /etc/rc.conf: > dumpdev="/dev/da0s2b" # this is the swap partition > > yes? Yes. You should also have your kernel compiled with debugging information (and then installed stripped), so that you can make sense out of the dump if you get one. See: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html > > > The kernel is unchanged, so there's nothing that could really fix the > > problem. It did go away though (at least for now) :-) > > well, fingers crossed, i'll give it a whirl. Good luck (though I doubt it'll change anything). > > -- > [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 506-0654 ] > [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] > [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ] > Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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