From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Aug 31 2:20:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF81158A7 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 02:20:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id CAA98172; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 02:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 02:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199908310920.CAA98172@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Subject: Re: i386/11278: FreeBSD Version 3.1 reboots repeatedly (continuously cycles through the boot process) if no video card is installed. Version 2.1.5 does not cycle. Reply-To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR i386/11278; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Kazutaka YOKOTA To: jtcn@dynegy.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: i386/11278: FreeBSD Version 3.1 reboots repeatedly (continuously cycles through the boot process) if no video card is installed. Version 2.1.5 does not cycle. Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 18:18:49 +0900 >>Number: 11278 >>Category: i386 >>Synopsis: FreeBSD Version 3.1 reboots repeatedly (continuously cycles t >hrough the boot process) if no video card is installed. Version 2.1.5 does no >t cycle. [...] >>Originator: John Thomas Chatelain >>Release: Version 3.1 >>Organization: >Dynegy, Inc. >>Environment: >FreeBSD Suitor3.distsys.net 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1 #1: Fri Apr 16 20:54:48 CD >T 1999 jchatel@Jacqueline5v2.distsys.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/SUITORX i386 >>Description: >I have 6 networked computers which form an isolated intranet. 1 with a monito >r, keboard, and mouse and 5 without monitors, keyboards, and mice. No indicat >ion of the problem when I "dmesg | more" other than video cards not found on t >he computeres without video cards. They, the 5 machines, simply startup, and >all seems for about 10 ping responses, and then they reboot. What can I do to > help fault isolate and solve the problem? The environment, "uname -a" above, > was copied from Suitor3 that previously did not have a video card, and was a >problem child, but now has a video card so that I may "rlogin". >My goal is to run Parallel Virtual Machine on all of the computers and control > them remotely through one machine (the one with a monitor, keyboard, and mous >e). FreeBSD Version 2.1.5 would boot with out a monitor keyboard or mouse, al >lowing me to rlogin and perform work but PVM version 3.4.0 would not build on >the BSD version 2.1.5 machines. Upon installing BSD version 3.1, all was well > with PVM on the machine with a video card but not with the ones without video > cards. Do we still have this problem in 3.2-STABLE or 4.0-CURRENT? Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message