From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 25 15:56:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DD3715830 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:56:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA46667; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:56:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:56:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Superuser Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems booting 2.2.7 after power outage In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Superuser wrote: > > > One of the cleaning people at my office yanked the power on one of my > machines overnight. They had the foresight to plug it back in, but when I > got back in the morning, it was hung. Rebooting with a custom > kernel, generic kernel, fixit floppy or setup floppy all suffer > the same fate. > > The machine hangs after detecting the npx0 defice (FPU, afaik.) I > never see the "Intel Pentium Processor detected" line. > > I've successfully booted DOS and Win95 boot loppies on this machine, but > that isn't a "real" test. Did they unplug the keyboard by chance? Just after the npx probe is where it jumps into user mode. If you have a serial cable handy you might plug it into COM1 and see if it's jumping to the comconsole for some strange reason. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message