6.1-RELEASE / 6.2 Kernel Crash...

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Wednesday 27 December 2006 02:24, Jan Knepper wrote:
> Tried that and started
>
> dd if=/dev/ad4 if=/dev/ad6 bs=1m
>
> Kernel went in panic and automatic reboot in about an hour... <sigh>
>
> It gets worse... when it does reboot the disk drive will not show in the
> BIOS, nor does FreeBSD recognize it during boot. The system actually has
> to be turned off to reset the drive...
>
> This is bad...
>
> Any other suggestions?
>

Maybe you can setup a serial console to grab the panic message?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html

--HPS