FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

[Kirk Strauser]

On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Mel wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 January 2009 11:24:50 Kirk Strauser wrote:
>> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 10:32:57 Mel wrote:
>>> Even though 7.1 has bugfixes, this kind of guesswork causes a lot of
>>> downtime for OP without any certainty that things will be any  
>>> better.
>>
>> If by "lots" you mean "2 minutes for a reboot", I'd be inclined to  
>> agree.
>
> Right, you really want to do buildworld on a production machine that
> experiences random reboots.


That would make the situation worse how?  The worst case is that it  
fails during installkernel, leaving him to boot from kernel.old.
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Kirk Strauser