Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:37:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Keith Walker <kew@timesink.spk.wa.us> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install Problem- System keeps rebooting Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961008203606.2709J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610071426.HAA19192@phobos.walker.org>
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On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Keith Walker wrote: > FWIW, my Hewlett Packard Pavilion does the exact same thing. I can > type in the options, but upon pressing Enter, bingo!, instant > reboot. I figured it was just me so I never said anything. It pains me > to think that my HP will now probably get lumped into the same group > as Packard Bell's by the BSD PTB's. :-/ There must be some change in 2.1.5 that casues it to barf. I know that some laptops go off in the same way. > This problem is endemic to 2.1.5, as versions 2.0 - 2.1 boot fine. I > was able to install 2.1.5 on this machine by using the DOS-to-Unix > boot program (can't remember what it's called). fbsdboot That seems to be the answer for systems that blow up like that. > BTW, the fresh floppy/bad image theory doesn't stand up to scientific > scrutiny since I exhausted those possibilities early on :-) Always a good first suggestion :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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