From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 7:19:18 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 16C9B37B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 07:19:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1B643F85 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 07:19:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jemaxwell@jaymax.com) Received: (qmail 16036 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2003 15:19:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jaymax.com) (jaymax@[66.93.45.209]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Mar 2003 15:19:18 -0000 Message-ID: <3E67668B.35B5BCDC@jaymax.com> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 07:17:31 -0800 From: Joseph Maxwell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Cherrier Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Machine does not not do a normal "Reboot" References: 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, Cute response: When I first purchased FreeBSD, it was in the 4.2 Distribution Disk set , about 6 CDROMs When I upgraded it was over the internet When the system crashes, where do I have to go to - the original distr. disks They worked flawlessly before, why not now After the re-installation, THEN I can upgrade Thanks -- Joe -- Olivier Cherrier wrote: > > 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) > > first, upgrade. > > oc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message