From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jun 30 20:25:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 329C537B553 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:25:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader@newsguy.com) Received: (qmail 23616 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2000 03:25:10 -0000 Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 1 Jul 2000 03:25:10 -0000 Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA15009; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:25:07 -0700 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Endless cycle of reboots From: Harry Putnam Date: 30 Jun 2000 20:25:07 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 50 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Toshiba 4005CDS 4.0 snap 06/23 Netgear FA410 <<== yes it is working. I've trashed my setup to the point where all I get is an endless cycle of reboots. Trying to stop the boot process and boot -s. It still just reboots endlessly. Thanks to lots of help from posters here my network was up and could be started manually after bootup. I was working on a way to start my network connection during boot and had tried putting something like: ifconfig_ed0="inet ed0 xxx.xxx.x.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" or similar...I don't have it now but it was right out of the book. Then: route add default xxx.xxx.x.1 (This is an ethernet connection .... the default route is needed to access the internet thru a IPmasqed linux box.) That seemed to fail because the pccard were not initialized yet So I wanted to try to start it later by putting something in /etc/rc.local /etc/rc.loca /bin/ifup-ed0 This is a script that says: #!/bin/sh sleep 15 ifconfig ed0 xxx.xx.x.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up sleep 4 route add default xxx.xx.x.1 ## done I tried booting with an fixit floppy but just get the same boot prompt and cycling reboots.. The fixit is from an older release.. Is that important? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message