Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 02:58:33 -0800 (PST) From: Sonny Van Hook <sonny@taffer.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.1-RELEASE #1 -- Mysterious reboots Message-ID: <200110291058.CAA23956@taffer.net>
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Hi All, I have a server setup remotely running FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #1. The timing seems random, but it will periodically reboot. I have looked in /var/log/messages for clues, but nothing has turned up. I've checked my log files and nothing appears amiss. I'm stumped over how to proceed with this because I can never actually see what's happening before the system crashes. The only "significant" change that has been made to this system (other than the custom kernel) was that the /var filesystem was way too small. I chose the FreeBSD default when setting up the disk and the 30MB that was allocated filled up quickly. So, I moved the majority of /var over to /usr and created symbolic links. The rebooting itself is inconvenient, but periodically, the system will *not* come back up. I was able to get down to the co-location office and plug a monitor into the system when it failed to respond and saw this: ---------------- begin screen capture --------------------------- F1 FreeBSD Default: F1 Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x173f) Invalid format >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: ---------------- end screen capture ------------------------------ The system was frozen at this point and a hard reset got it to come back up. The system is built around a Soyo ATX motherboard with a 600 MHz Celeron processor, 128MB of RAM, and a Western Digital WD300BB hard disk. Any ideas? This one really has me stumped since the crashes leave no clues (that I can find). Thanks in advance, Sonny Van Hook To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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