From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 13:54: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.scana.com (falcon.scana.com [161.156.101.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1858537B4CF for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:54:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by falcon.scana.com; id QAA09967; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:53:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailexnet.scana.com(161.156.248.69) by falcon.scana.com via smap (V5.5) id xma009946; Fri, 20 Oct 00 16:53:20 -0400 Received: by mailexnet.scana.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <45849GBF>; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:53:18 -0400 Message-ID: From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" To: "'Matt Rudderham'" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Strange Reboot Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:53:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Out of curiosity, what brand motherboard are you using? I had a reboot problem, and after swapping motherboards, I never rebooted again. I was using a PCChips motherboard/Pentium 200 (with an illegal BIOS), and replaced it with an ASUS MB/AMD K6-350. ...Michael... > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Matt > Rudderham > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 4:16 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Strange Reboot > > > Hi, > I was working on a different machine when my FreeBSD box (4.0 RELEASE) > spontaneously rebooted itself. The output of Last shows as follows: > ( All users logged in at time( All Local vts.)) > matt ttyv4 Wed Oct 11 16:24 - crash (8+06:04) > There is also the entry: > reboot ~ Thurs Oct 19 22:28 > > Is there anywhere else I should be looking? > If this is a onetime thing, it's not a major problem, and the > box did bring > itself up okay (first boot on a rebuilt kernel), it just > seemed odd, I was > watching the terminal, which was tailing an apache log file, > and it just > went blank and rebooted. I wouldn't mind correcting the prob > if I could. I > checked all of the usual sources first, i.e. power, > overheating, etc. Also > on a side note, has anyone heard anything on the status of > the "broken" le > driver in FreeBSD 4.0, I assume it wasn't fixed in 4.1, the > status page( > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18641 ), hasn't > updated, and I've > gotten no response from the author. > Thanks, > Matthew Rudderham > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message