Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 03:46:27 -0700 (PDT) From: jtcn@dynegy.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: i386/11278: FreeBSD Version 3.1 reboots repeatedly (continuously cycles through the boot process) if no video card is installed. Version 2.1.5 does not cycle. Message-ID: <19990422104627.611BB15A0A@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 11278 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: FreeBSD Version 3.1 reboots repeatedly (continuously cycles through the boot process) if no video card is installed. Version 2.1.5 does not cycle. >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Apr 22 03:50:01 PDT 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: John Thomas Chatelain >Release: Version 3.1 >Organization: Dynegy, Inc. >Environment: FreeBSD Suitor3.distsys.net 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1 #1: Fri Apr 16 20:54:48 CDT 1999 jchatel@Jacqueline5v2.distsys.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/SUITORX i386 >Description: I have 6 networked computers which form an isolated intranet. 1 with a monitor, keboard, and mouse and 5 without monitors, keyboards, and mice. No indication of the problem when I "dmesg | more" other than video cards not found on the computeres without video cards. They, the 5 machines, simply startup, and all seems for about 10 ping responses, and then they reboot. What can I do to help fault isolate and solve the problem? The environment, "uname -a" above, was copied from Suitor3 that previously did not have a video card, and was a problem child, but now has a video card so that I may "rlogin". My goal is to run Parallel Virtual Machine on all of the computers and control them remotely through one machine (the one with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse). FreeBSD Version 2.1.5 would boot with out a monitor keyboard or mouse, allowing me to rlogin and perform work but PVM version 3.4.0 would not build on the BSD version 2.1.5 machines. Upon installing BSD version 3.1, all was well with PVM on the machine with a video card but not with the ones without video cards. >How-To-Repeat: Install a video card and the machine starts. Pull a video card and the machine continuously cycles throught the boot process. The system will cycle until simply turned off. Upon installing a video card and start up, on a problem machine that was turned off, FreeBSD version 3.1 starts fine (one will note error messages that the file system was not properly unmounted prior to shutdown because of the power down in the middle of cycling). >Fix: Maybe a solution can be found in "syscons.c" or some other related file? >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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