FreeBSD PNP OS = NO in system bios configuration?
Bill Moran
wmoran at potentialtech.com
Fri Dec 31 14:37:24 PST 2004
conover at rahul.net (John Conover) wrote:
>
> Should PNP OS = NO in the PC system bios configuration be used for
> freeBSD?
>
> How about assigning IRQs of the PCI devices in system bios?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
> BTW, the reasons for the system related questions is that I'm having
> some stability issues in FreeBSD 2.5.1; runs for many hours of stress
> testing, and then freaks out, with BSD messges like "system interrupts
> have failed," etc., which is more like HW or bios configuration
> problems. 2.5.1 has a history of stability, right?
There never was such a thing as FreeBSD 2.5.1. Are you sure you're not
using 5.2.1? 5.2.1 is experimental software and doesn't really have a
great history of stability. Upgrade to 5.3 (if that's the case).
--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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