Re: worst FreeBSD EVAR. (crash on boot)

From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 12:09:19 -0700
FYI:

This bug went away with recent current.

* Alfred Perlstein <alfred_at_freebsd.org> [040228 03:42] wrote:
> So I'm updating from a Dec 5th kernel to today's so as to hopefully
> restore the cool pre-Dec 5th ACPI behaviour which was:
>   Hitting the power button did an orderly shutdown.
> 
> Instead of Dec 5th's behaviour which is:
>   Randomly (well mostly when I fat finger ^A-n to switch screens)
>     failing to suspend to disk and then completely locking up.
>   Hitting power button does an immediate shutdown.. like power OFF,
>     no orderly shutdown, fsck at boot required, baby jesus cries etc.
> 
> 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.
Received on Mon May 10 2004 - 10:09:19 UTC

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