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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Unix Boot up problem Post 302068615 by buffoonix on Sunday 19th of March 2006 06:40:46 PM
Old 03-19-2006
What is your OS?
Many Unices retreive their memory dump from their swap/dump device
on system reboot after a kernel panic (in your case probably resulting from a broken SCSI controller).
Usually the dump place in the filesystem as well as the amount how much of the memory should be dumped can be controlled by a user space command (e.g. dumpadm on HP-UX),
or dumps can be deactivated altogether.
If your box e.g. has large phys.memory (e.g. 16 GB or more as is not uncommon on enterprise servers) the writing of the dump into your filesystem (usually somewhere beneath /var) during boot up can quickly fill up all free space.
In this case find out how to supress the dump
(n.b. as long as you have no swap outs that could overwrite the dump area on your swap/dump device you can retreive the dump at any later time)

You other errors merely refer to syntax errors in init scripts' test blocks
probably resulting from unset vars.
(n.b. try using [[ -n $SOME_VAR ]] constructs to avoid those)
 

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AHB(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    AHB(4)

NAME
ahb -- Adaptec EISA SCSI host adapter driver SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device scbus device ahb Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): ahb_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
This driver provides access to the SCSI bus connected to an Adaptec AHA-174X host adapters in ``enhanced'' mode. Tagged queueing and syn- chronous SCSI transfers are supported. HARDWARE
The ahb driver supports the following SCSI host adapters: o Adaptec AHA-1740 o Adaptec AHA-1742 o Adaptec AHA-1740A o Adaptec AHA-1742A CAVEATS
The Adaptec 174X is very sensitive to SCSI bus termination and cable length. It may also have difficulties operating with some modern devices that, due to their speed, expose timing problems in the controller. There are no known mechanisms for working around device incom- patibilities of this nature. SEE ALSO
aha(4), ahc(4), aic(4), cd(4), da(4), sa(4), scsi(4) AUTHORS
The ahb driver was written by Justin T. Gibbs. BSD
July 4, 2004 BSD
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