Re: Weird reboots from bootmgr or loader

2003-08-14 Thread Lukas Ertl
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Florian Smeets wrote: > I got a really anoying Problem today. 3 different boxes started to reboot > when i hit enter at the bootmgr, or when i don't hit enter and wait for it > to boot FreeBSD it reboots when the loader should apear. I can see that it > prints out some numbers

Re: Weird reboots from bootmgr or loader

2003-08-14 Thread Lukas Ertl
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Are you running -current w/ a kernel from the last 24 hrs? (After phk's > mass swap check in?) If so, make sure your swap isn't at the start of > your disk. If it is, phk was nice enough to only blow away your boot > blocks instead of your disk labe

Re: Weird reboots from bootmgr or loader

2003-08-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John-Mark Gurney writes: >Simply move the swap start to 16, and reduce the swap length by 16.. >Do this in single user, or comment out swap temporarily and reboot, >you can't have swap mounted for this change. This will cause swap to >skip the disklabel, and you sh

Re: Weird reboots from bootmgr or loader

2003-08-14 Thread eculp
Mensaje citado por Florian Smeets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | | > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, John-Mark Gurney wrote: | > | >> Are you running -current w/ a kernel from the last 24 hrs? (After | >> phk's mass swap check in?) If so, make sure your swap isn't at the | >> start of your disk. If it is, phk was

Re: Weird reboots from bootmgr or loader

2003-08-14 Thread Florian Smeets
Lukas Ertl wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Florian Smeets wrote: Lukas Ertl wrote: I managed to fix it by booting from floppies and running the Fixit floppy, writing a new disklabel, which seems to have become corrupted somehow. Yes this really did the trick! :-) May I ask if you boot from a vinum

Re: Weird reboots from bootmgr or loader

2003-08-14 Thread Florian Smeets
Lukas Ertl wrote: I saw _exactly_ the same problem on one of my boxes today: it was shutdowned correctly yesterday, and today it wouldn't boot, but panic right after boot0. The only thing I could see were some hex numbers and "BTX halted" for a split second, then immediately reboot. It's a -current

Re: Weird reboots from bootmgr or loader

2003-08-14 Thread John-Mark Gurney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote this message on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 19:43 +0900: > I also got the same BTX error during boot up. :( > I used 4.8-RELEASE CD to boot till loader starts up, > changed currdev/loaddev/kernel etc to the -CURRENT setting > and let system boot. > > From: "Florian Smeets" <[EMAIL

Re: Weird reboots from bootmgr or loader

2003-08-14 Thread haro
Hi, I also got the same BTX error during boot up. :( I used 4.8-RELEASE CD to boot till loader starts up, changed currdev/loaddev/kernel etc to the -CURRENT setting and let system boot. From: "Florian Smeets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:43:18 +0200 (CEST) :: ::> On Tue, 5 Aug 200

Re: Weird reboots from bootmgr or loader

2003-08-06 Thread Florian Smeets
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > >> Are you running -current w/ a kernel from the last 24 hrs? (After >> phk's mass swap check in?) If so, make sure your swap isn't at the >> start of your disk. If it is, phk was nice enough to only blow away >> your boot blocks instead of your d

Re: Weird reboots from bootmgr or loader

2003-08-06 Thread Lukas Ertl
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Florian Smeets wrote: > Lukas Ertl wrote: > > I managed to fix it by booting from floppies and running the Fixit floppy, > > writing a new disklabel, which seems to have become corrupted somehow. > > > > Yes this really did the trick! :-) May I ask if you boot from a vinum vol

Re: Weird reboots from bootmgr or loader

2003-08-06 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Lukas Ertl wrote this message on Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 19:09 +0200: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Florian Smeets wrote: > > > I got a really anoying Problem today. 3 different boxes started to reboot > > when i hit enter at the bootmgr, or when i don't hit enter and wait for it > > to boot FreeBSD it reboo