From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 19:58:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA06175 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 19:58:35 -0700 Received: from s1.GANet.NET (ec0@s1.GANet.NET [199.18.201.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA06169 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 19:58:32 -0700 Received: (from ec0@localhost) by s1.GANet.NET (8.6.11/8.6.11) id WAA28481; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 22:58:25 -0400 From: Eric Chet Message-Id: <199510060258.WAA28481@s1.GANet.NET> Subject: Re: Flaky reboot problem with this SP3G board To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 22:58:24 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Oct 4, 95 07:38:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1593 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, David Greenman wrote: > > > > Try just pressing "Enter". The machine actually does a 'halt', not a > > reboot, and it needs a before it will reboot. I don't think virtual > > console switching works at this stage, either, which explains why the machine > > appears dead. > > I hit Enter at first, then spacebar, then I tried the switch > virtual consoles, etc. But after some more fiddling last night, I > think it just might be the hardware itself. The machine was rebooted > five times after I did the installation last night. Twice it hung as > I described, twice it rebooted itself properly and once it cleared the > screen (as if to reboot) and then stayed there. After hitting the > hardware reset, I get a message saying the CMOS checksums don't match > (or something) and that it was reloading the factory defaults. Is > this a bad BIOS revision problem, or bad memory, or what? This looks like what happened to me on the pre-2.0.5R-snap releases. On a few of the releases my SP3G did exactly what you described above. I'm using 2.0.5-950622 right now, I plan on upgrading to 2.1 when it's released I'm also get a 4.3GB drive at the same time. Back to your problem, I saw the same thing with 30% of the snap releases up to 2.0.5R I have a SP3G with awsg302 BIOS with NCR 03.07.00 NCR bios. BTW: asus has awsg3041 bios on there server, but I have not tried them yet. I hope this helps -Eric > -- > Brian Tao > System Administrator, Internex Online Inc. > "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" > >