From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 30 13:43:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E98114C25 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:43:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09194; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:43:22 -0600 (CST) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma009145; Tue, 30 Mar 99 15:42:58 -0600 Received: (from nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) id PAA13207; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:42:57 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19990330154257.D10215@winternet.com> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:42:57 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom To: Spidey Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Mysterious reboots... References: <19990330132206.B10215@winternet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Spidey on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 04:34:14PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Spidey wrote: > [I don't know if my reply was sent, but here I lost it so I send it > again...] > > yes, i do have the splash pseudo-device in my kernel. This could be the > cause of the reboots. I'll try to recompile a kernel without it. The > problem is that it is very difficult to test as I don't know which > conditions to recreate to make the event happen again. We'll see, with > time. Yes, it could be the cause. Several weeks ago some other reported similar problems and it was determined to the the splash screen code. I thought that there was a fix put in for this problem, but I am not sure. > There's another thing I remarked, though. It's that it is not a normal > reboot... normally, when the machine crashes (does it ever? :) or when I > reboot, I almost immediatly get the startupt BIOS screen, but when these > crashes occur, I hear the fan and all the box go down 'normally', but > there is a slight pause (say 2 secs.) before the machine restarts. Weird, > I tell ya... > > What's this splash device anyways? I put it there to test it and never got > time to check out the doc or try it in any way... :( It can display a pretty picture upon boot up and it is necessary for the console mode screen savers. Good Luck, Nathan -- Nathan Ahlstrom FreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ nrahlstr@winternet.com PGP Key ID: 0x67BC9D19 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message