Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:32:19 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tommi_H=E4rk=F6nen?= <harkonen@gmail.com> To: Ben Haysom <ben.haysom@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unclean reboot during portupgrade Message-ID: <9554242b050215063210c0e6a9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d014caa505021410447cc91695@mail.gmail.com> References: <d014caa505021400597aaff9b6@mail.gmail.com> <4210A992.20903@jimking.net> <d014caa505021410447cc91695@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:44:43 +0000, Ben Haysom <ben.haysom@gmail.com> wrote: > how would I check that? > and yes, cd works fine... Get a beefier PSU and try http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/. > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:37:22 -0600, Jim King <jim@jimking.net> wrote: > > I made a Memtest86 bootable CD. Does your CD drive work? > > > > Check your power supply. I had similar problems, and it turned out the > > extra power used during heavy disk I/O AND heavy CPU usage caused the > > power supply to flake out. It caused all sorts of strange symptoms, > > which all went away when the new power supply was installed. > > > > Ben Haysom wrote: > > > > >hi > > > > > >I have a problem with 5.3 FreeBSD on my Duron 700 mhz 512 Mb ram 200 gig HD. > > > > > >It currently reboots itself (without shutting down) before finishing a > > >portupgrade -a. > > > > > >I was advised to test the memory and CPU (which I did using memtest > > >and cpuburn - couldn't use memtest86 coz my floppy drive is busted) > > >and they both seem fine. memtest did seem to struggle at the start. > > > > > >Next I've gone for fsck - seemed fine once it had fixed the errors > > >(various switches -f and -y) but I'm not 100% sure of this. > > > > > >Any advice? > > > > > >Ben. -- tommi harkonen
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