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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!sunic!isgate!krafla!adamd From: adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Constant rebooting of hard drive (PLEASE HELP) Message-ID: <6497@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Date: 7 Mar 93 03:56:21 GMT References: <C38sIK.nw@acsu.buffalo.edu> Sender: news@rhi.hi.is Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: hengill.rhi.hi.is tef@acsu.buffalo.edu (T. E. Frisinger) writes: >when I rebooted, the machine would start initializing and then >flash an error message and reboot. After letting it reboot about 30 times >so I could read the error message, I got most of it. It says something like, > Operating system is saving copy of RAM at offset 0 (something about 1MB) >device bad, rebooting. I get the same messages when my system decides to do a spontaneous reboot. Last time this happened was during 'ls' on an otherwise "idle" machine. It took over 20 reboots (probably closer to 40, it took one and a half hours) before the system recovered enough to be useable again. It takes anything from 1 to 5 reboots each time before allowing a faultless login, and then reboots spontaneously or hangs again shortly afterwards. Normally, it is possible to shutdown the system and start it up again immediately afterwards without having to reboot a second time. Maybe the problem is aggravated because I have to press the reset button every time (while the system is going through the BIOS checks) in order for the SMC 8003 ethernet card to be recognised. It have also noticed if the message appears "updating disks before reboot" that most times it just hangs without rebooting. Often the system panics with trap 12 (which one is that?). -- Adam David (adam@veda.is)