From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 2 00:36:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA11682 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 00:36:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA11675 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 00:36:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA13979; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 00:23:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdL13976; Sun Aug 2 07:23:41 1998 Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 00:23:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: DisCBoY cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD 2.1.5 In-Reply-To: <000701bdbddd$b5fb2880$99b9e3cd@discboy> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG at what point does it restart? have you tried answering the question Boot: with the responce: -s this will make it try boot single user.. (maintenance mode) what hardware do you have onit? is there also a scsi disk? or a IDE? what are the last things you see on the screen before it reboots? how about "Cannot Mount root".. do you see that message? On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, DisCBoY wrote: > I have free BSD 2.1.5 and it is on a 486 100 w/ 8 mb ram. The Hard Drive > has already been set up and is ready to go, but the system keeps > re-starting after it starts to boot the OS. What is wrong and can I do > anything about it? > > Austin Speer > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message