Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 19:38:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> Cc: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Flaky reboot problem with this SP3G board Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.951004193519.24614H-100000@trepan.io.org> In-Reply-To: <199510040436.VAA00321@corbin.Root.COM>
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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 <return> 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?
--
Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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