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From: adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PC keeps rebooting after install
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Date: 7 Mar 93 03:37:17 GMT
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dsilvia@blunt.net.com writes:

>PROPOSITION:  Does it work just fine when DOS does not share the disk because
>				  device 1 offset 0 is the swap partition?  Seems like it.  If so
>				  isn't this a dangerous assumption - shouldn't it check, possibly
>				  at startup for where exactly _IS_ swap?

Default swap partition is configured in the standard kernel as the first
partition that is found of (1) wd0b or (2) as0b (i.e. second partition of
first hard disk). The default panic dump area is in the same place. These
defaults are fixed and can only be changed by recompiling the kernel. It
may be a correct assumption that devoting the entire disk to 386bsd might
fix the frequent occurence of a cyclical reboot sequence, but it hasn't
for me. I installed 386bsd on the whole disk but every so often it crashes
so bad that it needs to be guided through over 20 reboots one after the other
before things normalise again. It seems to be minor inconsistencies in the
filesystem (not reported by fsck) that have this effect once in a while.

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Adam David (adam@veda.is)