From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 16:39: 9 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 16:39:07 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from partita.rem.cs.cmu.edu (PARTITA.REM.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.86.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B88B737B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:39:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dpetrou@localhost) by partita.rem.cs.cmu.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB80d5i08235 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:39:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dpetrou) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:39:04 -0500 From: David Petrou To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system resetting on boot after freebsd 4.2 install Message-ID: <20001207193904.D8084@partita.rem.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: dpetrou@cs.cmu.edu References: <20001207192915.B8084@partita.rem.cs.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001207192915.B8084@partita.rem.cs.cmu.edu>; from dpetrou@cs.cmu.edu on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:29:15PM -0500 X-Hit-Pick: Johann Sebastian Bach - Lionel Rogg / Toccata & Fugue in D Minor Sender: dpetrou@partita.rem.cs.cmu.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > the problem is on boot. i get the prompt saying "f1 for disk 0" or > whatever. i hit f1. then right before it does that 10 second > countdown where you "press enter to continue...", the system resets > itself. it looks like a hard reset. and the cycle continues until i > shut it off... addendum: what's so mysterious to me is that the kernel from the boot floppies worked fine. i can't figure out why the kernel on the hard drive would exhibit this problem. the boot floppies are for freebsd 4.2 release and the kernel, presumably, is the same GENERIC kernel. thanks, david To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message