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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PC keeps rebooting after install
Date: 9 Mar 1993 10:42:49 GMT
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In article <6496@krafla.rhi.hi.is> adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes:
>
> I installed 386bsd on the whole disk but every so often it crashes so
> bad that it needs to be guided through over 20 reboots one after the
> other before things normalise again. It seems to be minor
> inconsistencies in the filesystem (not reported by fsck) that have
> this effect once in a while.

~Oh, that."

When fsck corrects an error on booting, a certain infamous bug in init
will cause the boot sequence to continue even as it's trying to reboot.
This will cause the root file system to be mounted read/write, and
possibly some files modified.  The machine ends up rebooting unsynced,
and the root file system has errors in it.  You can guess what happens
next.

I think patchkit 0.2.1 fixes this.

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