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Date:      Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:15:16 -0500
From:      "Mike" <mib812@home.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Random Rebooting
Message-ID:  <003a01c07533$6529e440$8a3db418@brstl1.ct.home.com>

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All right, well, apparently I can get it to boot if I unload the kernel,
then boot kernel.GENERIC, which I guess would indicate it's something to do
with my reconfiguration of the kernel.  But that wouldn't explain why it did
the same thing the times when I didn't even have the kernel sources
installed yet, or had even logged into the system for the first
time...Strange.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <mib812@home.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 10:01 PM
Subject: Random Rebooting


> 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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