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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:52:12AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> A complete reboot like that might be software jumping to the wrong
> address but, if so, it seems to me that it's more likely caused by how
> you've built the machine and not the software itself having a bug. 

If this is a continuation of Dale's previous problems, it is most
likely that the reboot is caused by him having enabled the kernel
option to reboot on panic. The question then is, what is causing the
kernel to panic?

W

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Willie W. Wong                                     wwong@math.princeton.edu
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