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Date:      Tue, 05 Aug 2003 19:36:02 +0200
From:      Florian Smeets <flo@kasimir.com>
To:        Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Weird reboots from bootmgr or loader
Message-ID:  <3F2FEB02.9010605@kasimir.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030805190422.L651@korben.in.tern>
References:  <3162.217.225.213.89.1060102813.squirrel@webmail.kasimir.com> <20030805190422.L651@korben.in.tern>

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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
> box from Sunday evening CEST.
> 
> 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! :-)

thanks Lukas!

regards,
flo



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