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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help! My FreeBSD system has crashed
Date: 20 Dec 1994 18:14:36 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <D0s31u.yo@usenews.nrlssc.navy.mil>,
Jeff Becklehimer <beck@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:
[ Problems running FreeBSD ]
...

>I'm in deep and decide it's a hardware error.
>
>I then made a DOS boot floppy with Norton's ndiag on the disk. I boot to DOS
>and run hardware diagnostics all day and it reports no errors.

That doesn't mean you don't have hardware problems.  DOS is a simplistic
OS, and doesn't use the hardware at all.  It's very possible (and
probable) that your hardware is slowly dying and although DOS doesn't
seem to notice it, a real multi-tasking OS like FreeBSD which uses the
hardware will cause hardware failures.

>So any advice? Do diagnostics exist for FreeBSD?

Boot and run make world in /usr/src. :-)

If it works, chances are very good that your hardware is fine.



Nate

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