From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 17:35:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F4AF37B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:35:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark9 (hutch-458.hutchtel.net [209.105.45.186]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id TAA22253; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 19:35:24 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <007e01c09494$0bae0b00$6100000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: , References: <20010212011132.9D3E236F9@sitemail.everyone.net> Subject: Re: Reboots.... Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 19:34:42 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Ossei" To: "Josh Paetzel" ; Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 7:11 PM Subject: Re: Reboots.... > Well if I could get that far to tell about any errors I'll consider myself lucky. I don't see any errors, it gets past the point where you're given a chance to put in other parameters for booting and then the screen flickers and reboots. NO ERRORS NOTHING! It reboots as soon as it starts to boot the kernel. I can't get into the system at all. And no it's not easy especially when you can't see anything...... > > It sounds like you have some seriously b0rked hardware. I would start swapping memory/cpu/drives/mobo and so forth to see if this problem follows any particular component. Josh > > --- "Josh Paetzel" > > wrote: > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Benjamin Ossei" > >To: > >Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 10:40 AM > >Subject: Reboots.... > > > > > >> I updated my machine from 4.2-RELEASE to 4.2-STABlE and everything > >seemed to have worked fine. The machine ran for two days and then all > >of a sudden it rebooted by itself. Now when I reboot it it passes the > >boot prompt and reboots again and again at the same spot. What went > >wrong here? Is this a bug? How can I get my machine back? > >> > >> Thanks... > > > >Well, you could start by telling us what errors you are getting in > >/var/log/messages, if any, and at what point in the boot > >it reboots at. Read your own message and try to figure out what's > >going on from it. Not easy, is it? ;) > > > >Josh > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message