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Date:      Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:01:11 -0500
From:      "Mike" <mib812@home.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Random Rebooting
Message-ID:  <003401c07531$6dc75080$8a3db418@brstl1.ct.home.com>

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For some reason whenever I install 4.2-release on my laptop, it will work
for a varying amount of time, then when I go to boot it'll just wig out and
reboot.  I get up to the part where it tells me to press Enter or any other
key, and initiates the countdown.  Regardless of what key I press, whether
it be enter, some key and then typing 'boot' manually, or just letting the
countdown run to 0 and booting by itself, it'll get to the spinning slash
and then stop, then reboot.  This has happened with and without other
operating systems on the hard disk, and there doesn't seem to be a specific
number of times it'll work before this problem comes up.  Sometimes I'll get
a few days out of it before it happens, sometimes it'll act up as soon as I
reboot right after installing.  Is this a hardware issue?  Or am I
configuring something incorrectly?  I don't see what exactly it could be, as
I'm doing everything exactly as I had with my desktop and 4.0-release a few
months ago.



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