From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 2:38: 3 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 B0A0237B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 02:38:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail13.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C283843F93 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 02:38:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jemaxwell@jaymax.com) Received: (qmail 27179 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2003 10:38:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jaymax.com) (jaymax@[66.93.45.209]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Mar 2003 10:38:19 -0000 Message-ID: <3E67261D.4B80EE53@jaymax.com> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 02:42:37 -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: questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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. AMD K7 CPU, 900MHz on AI61 MotherBoard 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 1or 2 reqd. in cdrom for a "boot" Now it makes no difference 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