System freezes up during reboot I have a system that freezes during the reboot process. The computer is running FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE and is very reliable and, well, umm, stable. This is not a random reboot problem. It is a problem that occurs during reboot. The freeze occurs after the BIOS screen and just after the …
FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 – yes, I know this is late This article was originally finished on about Oct 18, but I never published it (for no particular reason). Although 6.0 has now been released, I thought I’d publish it now, just in case it helps. The original article follows. FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 came out on Oct 11. …
Cross compiling on AMD64 – the teaser Cross compiling is the act of compiling for one platform (e.g. i386) when on another (e.g. AMD 64). Why is this interesting to me? I have an AMD 64 3000+ with 1GB of RAM running on an ASUS A8V Deluxe1. It’s acting as my gateway right now. Needless …
Make the keyboard work on a headless server (read also about t-shirts!) Last week I bought a computer from the fine folks at OEM Express. It is a AMD Duron 900MHZ with 128MB RAM, a 32X CDROM, and a Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM UDMA133 drive. No keyboard. No mouse. No monitor. This box is destined to …
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