Kernel Panic on boot

William A. Carrel william.a at carrel.org
Wed Mar 17 12:28:49 PST 2004


In article <1079553784.43782.0.camel at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 "Eric J. Christeson" <ejc at xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've got a laptop here that I'd like to get DragonFly running on.  The
> problem I'm running up against is a kernel panic on boot.  I'm using the
> 2004-01-18 CD.  It has a similar, if not same, panic on FreeBSD 4.9 and
> 5.2.1 so it's probably rouge hardware.  DragonFly is the only one of the
> three that seems to have a debugger built in to the kernel and it's my
> preferred OS.

You might try using a more recent CD than Jan-18.  I had similar 
problems with my ThinkPad until I updated to a March version.  And with 
the recent release by Matt, there is all the more reason to go fetch 
that.

-- 
William A. Carrel





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