From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 8:53: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E9D37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:52:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD65D43F75 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:52:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jemaxwell@jaymax.com) Received: (qmail 4845 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2003 16:53:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jaymax.com) (jaymax@[66.93.45.209]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 5 Mar 2003 16:53:01 -0000 Message-ID: <3E662C86.6CBC2916@jaymax.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 08:57:43 -0800 From: Joseph Maxwell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Users Subject: Machine does not not do a normal "Reboot" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, FreeBSD 4.2, PC 512MMB RAM, 2- HD 60 & 40 Mb. System found in indeterminate state, assumed power failure problem. Several reboot and boot attempts failed. Re-installed O/S, system came back up, data intact on 2nd HD but not seen in fstab file, remount etc. OK smooth running, fine Doing a tar xf from a CDROM, system went into a "block size" error, starting a "disc sync" mode followed by a "reboot" condition but never came back up. Seems as if Win start up disk required in floppy drive and FreeBSD distr. Disk 1 reqd. in cdrom for a "boot" Any idea of what could be causing this and possible solution(s) Thanks -- Joe -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message