FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

[Mel]

On Tuesday 27 January 2009 01:02:00 Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:

> Because there are many bugs were in 7.0 and got fixed in 7.1, and maybe you
> are affected by one of them.

Even though 7.1 has bugfixes, this kind of guesswork causes a lot of downtime 
for OP without any certainty that things will be any better.

At the very least, we should find out if the OS is at fault at all.

For Proskurin:
Find out if the machine reboots, because of a kernel panic and if so try to 
get a kernel crash dump [1]. If it does not panic, you're 90% sure it's a 
hardware issue. The remaining 10% is left for the case where FreeBSD does not 
configure hardware correctly through ACPI, causing hardware to operate badly.


[1] 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.