On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:28:44PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 07:57:19PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > something panicked my dell. more than twice. i have loaded, the
> >> > i386 7.2-R Dvd. the panic was something like
> >> >
> >> > PHY#1
> >> > panic[y/n]y
> >>
> >> Do you have a crash report in /var/crash ?
> >>
> >
> > no, nada. i didnt know about /var/crash until now, thanks for the
> > datapoint. it is empty.
> >
>
> Very important location on your system after a (possible) panic.
>
> >
> >> >
> >> > then something about cpu 0 being involved.
> >> >
> >> > i have the 8.0 rc3 bootonly.iso cd. should i try that? or did
> >> > dell ship me a bad computer?
> >> >
> >>
> >> I'll keep my opinions to myself...
> >>
> >
> > well, i'd laugh, glen, but i hurt my back twisting over to my right
> > [[ with my left hand]] to use the dell keybd. yes, why would any
> > body do anybody else a bad deed.
> >
> > here is more complete version of the events of the day.
> >
> > my network bud down in dallas is helping me get the dell as my
> > new server. my old hp kayak is from 1998 and on its death-bed.
> >
> > okay: i have 7.2-R, i386. installs fine. jon horne changed the
> > IP that the op sys | DHCP suite chose from 10.47.0.112 to
> > 10.47.0.230. i do not know why, but he change the ifconfig line in
> > /etc/rc.conf from ="DHCP" to ="inet 10.47.0.230 netmask 10.0.0.255"
> > or something similar. jon says that the IP can't or shouldn't be
> > D=Dynamic but stable. surely this is right. ---in my old config
> > prior to jan 2008 or dec 2007 i had every local IP tied down in a
> > file in /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf [or similar]. it worked
> > flawlessly. now i am using pfSense and i *think* there is a config
> > file in there that makes local IP's stable.
> >
>
> Network configuration "should not" provoke a panic, unless the driver
> is at fault (which you have not stated which driver this is).
>
dunno about the driver. doubt it. anyway, busy fixing things
while the power stays on!
--
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