From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 03:54:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1FC816A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 03:54:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from natco8.natcotech.com (natco8.natcotech.com [205.167.142.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CBB943D3F for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 03:54:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smartweb@leadhill.net) Received: from localhost (int9.natcotech.com [192.168.1.9]) by natco8.natcotech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 854602985AA for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:54:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from natco8.natcotech.com ([192.168.1.8]) by localhost (natco9 [192.168.1.9]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10179-01-8 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:54:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (lhr5-dial-12-28-24-42.natcotech.com [12.28.24.42]) by natco8.natcotech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F03298672 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:54:53 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41E1FC8D.2050908@leadhill.net> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:54:53 -0600 From: Billy Newsom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41E03E5E.9020001@leadhill.net> <6610107427.20050108232912@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <6610107427.20050108232912@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at natco9.natcotech.com Subject: Re: Reboot fails: 5 beeps and a freeze X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 03:54:56 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Billy Newsom writes: > > BN> ...and that's all I ever see. But while this is being printed to the > BN> screen, I get five beeps. I don't remember that many beeps in FreeBSD 4.x. > BN> > BN> BEEP, beep beep beep, BEEP > > See http://bioscentral.com for a list of beep codes for many different > BIOS. Most BIOS seem to use BEEP beep beep beep for video or memory > errors, but check and see. I'm don't think that this is a BIOS issue. The beeps may be from FreeBSD, I believe. Can anyone tell me if one of the routines in the kernel beeps during a reboot? If it is the BIOS, that beep code means that the first 64K of memory is bad, but obviously this would seem like a strange beep code during a reboot. The way I understand beep codes is that they should happen during a POST. But looking at my console, I still see the stuff that you cropped out of my original post on my screen, namely, the cpu_reset: Stopping other CPUs In other words, it appears that the beeps are coming from the FreeBSD 5.3 kernel, and not the BIOS. But since perhaps the cpu_reset may be somewhat successful you may be right... The beeps could be BIOS beeps. I know, however, that this computer always did its reboots properly when I ran FreeBSD 4.7. So meanwhile, I have been looking at the changes to this file: http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/diff/i386/i386/vm_machdep.c?v=RELENG4;diffvar=v;diffval=RELENG5 The above link shows a diff between FreeBSD 4-Stable and 5-Stable. The differences are numerous, and some are in the middle of the cpu_reset function which could be the problem. I may try seeing if a freebsd-hacker might have some input. I almost began this post in the hackers list, but I tried here first, as is my duty. But I don't see any reason for the beeps looking into the FreeBSD kernel, either, so I may be barking up the wrong tree. > BN> I don't know how long I've waited for the system to reboot, but so far > BN> it hasn't. > > If the BIOS is unhappy, it's not going to reboot. > That's true. But I wonder why it's not? My memory has never failed a test during a POST, so failing on the reboot seems very odd. On another twist, I happen to be buying a complete new set of memory for this machine to max it out. I wonder if that will fix it?! Billy