Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 08:17:40 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Christoff Snijders <hjcs@portal.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots Message-ID: <4111.829984660@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Apr 1996 00:05:40 -0000." <31782A54.41C67EA6@portal.ca>
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Christoff Snijders wrote in message ID <31782A54.41C67EA6@portal.ca>: > From time to time, even when I perform a find manually (though more > rarely by this method than by cron)--say, for example, > > find / -name text.txt -print > > the machine will pause for a moment or two, and then reboot itself. > > While, in principle, I'm not unwilling to consider the possibility of > faulty RAM or a faulty motherboard, I believe this is unlikely, since I > am also running Windoze 95 on the same machine with a slew of (some > really demanding, processor & FPU-wise) applications, and I receive no > errors. Ahh... Do you have the DOS parition mounted under FreeBSD? If so... don't, I'm betting that's your problem ... the FreeBSD DOS code is flakey and can cause spontaneous reboots as it doesn't bounds check stuff. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.
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