Subject: Re: death of a kernel...
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us>
From: Erik Vogan <vogan@auriga.rose.brandeis.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/01/1995 14:02:48
On Fri, 1 Sep 1995, Allen Briggs wrote:
> > *** Story 1) I rebooted the machine to BSD last night (using the
> > original 1.0B kernel), and was rewarded with a login prompt.
>
> So the system is panicing now on a kernel that was working fine? Check
> your hardware configuration and run filesystem checks on all mountable
> filesystems. This almost sounds like flaky memory, too.
Sorry I forgot to mention this, but the system shows no symptoms
under MacOS. Everything is just fine as long as I don't boot to BSD. As
well, all the unix side filesystems check fine with fsck (yah, I know,
great reassurance that is).
> There isn't any reason that an old kernel should stop working just
> because you booted a newer one once or twice.
I know, I know, I know.
erik vogan
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