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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate 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 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3d76uc$h3p@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <D0s31u.yo@usenews.nrlssc.navy.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu 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 -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-5980 | Unemployed, looking for permanant work in home #: (406) 586-0579 | CS/EE field.