From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 20 01:33:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA00370 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 01:33:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA00362 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 01:32:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id JAA04410 ; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 09:31:25 +0100 (BST) To: Christoff Snijders CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 20 Apr 1996 01:15:58 -0000." <31783ACE.41C67EA6@portal.ca> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 09:31:25 +0100 Message-ID: <4408.829989085@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [CC: questions added back] Christoff Snijders wrote in message ID <31783ACE.41C67EA6@portal.ca>: > I did have a DOS partition mounted at one stage, and yes, this *did* > result in spontaneous re-boots, but the problem occurs even when no DOS > partition is mounted. And I'm almost completely sure the problem > doesn't only manifest itself when the CD-ROM is mounted with > > mount_cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom > > Any other ideas? I'm really stumped. The only thing I can think of is filesystem corruption which fsck can't fix/detect (which is possible I think but unlikely). Anyone else have any ideas? Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.