Box Mysteriously Rebooting?

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Jeff Bethke wrote:

>I've read through archives and it seems that when the FreeBSD kernel
>hits *any* kind of hardware fault.. it reboots! 
>
Nonsense.  If, for example, your memory was duff or overheating, and 
that caused a bad dereference in kernel code, then it might, quite 
understandably, cause a reboot.  Probably there are other scenarios as 
well, but it is just daft to say that any hardware problem inevitably 
causes reboot.  You are clearly frustrated by the problem, but lashing 
out with wild generalisations isn't going to help your cause any.

Last year I had a memory stick go a bit duff.  Windows rebooted all the 
time whereas freebsd noticed the problem, and stopped using the bad 
section of memory, thus keeping me working and earning until more memory 
arrived in the post.

--Alex