From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 19: 9:34 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 19:09:32 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ct.home.com [24.2.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B2E37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:09:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from c306049a ([24.180.61.138]) by mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010103030931.NADP9746.mail.rdc1.ct.home.com@c306049a> for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:09:31 -0800 Message-ID: <003401c07531$6dc75080$8a3db418@brstl1.ct.home.com> From: "Mike" To: Subject: Random Rebooting Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:01:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message