6.1-RELEASE / 6.2 Kernel Crash...

[Jan Knepper]

Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 December 2006 02:24, Jan Knepper wrote:
>   
>> Tried that and started
>>
>> dd if=/dev/ad4 if=/dev/ad6 bs=1m
>>
>> Kernel went in panic and automatic reboot in about an hour... <sigh>
>>
>> It gets worse... when it does reboot the disk drive will not show in the
>> BIOS, nor does FreeBSD recognize it during boot. The system actually has
>> to be turned off to reset the drive...
>>
>> This is bad...
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
>>
>>     
>
> Maybe you can setup a serial console to grab the panic message?
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html
>
>   
Good idea... I might just try that...

Thanks!
Jan