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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: compiling on 2.0.5/950622-SNAP reboots my pc
Date: 7 Jul 1995 13:27:59 +0200
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Chris Origer <ctoriger@starbase.neosoft.com> wrote:
>Hi, I'd like to check freeBSD out (I've linux too) and got the bin and
>kernel dists installed fine. My problem though is that any time I try to
>compile something (both as root and a regular user) the machine will just
>reboot. I can't even recompile the kernel. I've disable all drivers that
>I don't need on the boot.flp and yet this still happens. A conflict I guess?
>Has any one else had this problem? My machine has the following:
Perhaps a cache problem? Try making it write-back if you can.
>All this works perfectly while linux is booted. And I went more conservative
>with my bios settings too (thinking it was a timing problem).
I've heard that Liux silently disables the cache on known-to-be
broken mainboards.
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)