Re: Tracking down system freeze

2001-12-06 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alfred Perlstein writes: : * Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011205 23:00] wrote: : > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alfred Perlstein writes: : > : What you do is fold a paperclip then use it to make the last : > : two pins of the ISA bus short: : > : > and it does

Re: Tracking down system freeze

2001-12-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011205 23:00] wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alfred Perlstein writes: > : What you do is fold a paperclip then use it to make the last > : two pins of the ISA bus short: > > and it doesn't work on PCI bus, or any other bus than ISA (except > maybe EISA)

Re: Tracking down system freeze

2001-12-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alfred Perlstein writes: : What you do is fold a paperclip then use it to make the last : two pins of the ISA bus short: and it doesn't work on PCI bus, or any other bus than ISA (except maybe EISA). I have a small ISA card that I have connected to the parallel por

RE: Tracking down system freeze

2001-12-05 Thread John Baldwin
On 05-Dec-01 PSI, Mike Smith wrote: > Hi all. > > Does anyone have ANY suggestions on how to determine where the > kernel/program is when the system freezes??? Even hardware solutions, > such as the infamous paperclip across two pins will do. > > I am trying to track down what appears to be a k

Re: Tracking down system freeze

2001-12-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* PSI, Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011205 12:12] wrote: > Hi all. > > Does anyone have ANY suggestions on how to determine where the > kernel/program is when the system freezes??? Even hardware solutions, > such as the infamous paperclip across two pins will do. Ohh... the infamous paperclip

Re: Tracking down system freeze

2001-12-05 Thread David Malone
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:14:51PM -0500, PSI, Mike Smith wrote: > Does anyone have ANY suggestions on how to determine where the > kernel/program is when the system freezes??? Even hardware solutions, > such as the infamous paperclip across two pins will do. Serial console and serial break-to-th