From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 19:23:42 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 19:23:39 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 97BCE37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:23:39 -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 <20010103032339.NJIO9746.mail.rdc1.ct.home.com@c306049a> for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:23:39 -0800 Message-ID: <003a01c07533$6529e440$8a3db418@brstl1.ct.home.com> From: "Mike" To: Subject: Re: Random Rebooting Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:15:16 -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 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" To: 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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message