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From: pascal@netcom.com (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PC keeps rebooting after install
Message-ID: <1993Mar11.010233.29306@netcom.com>
Date: 11 Mar 93 01:02:33 GMT
References: <1993Mar3.011330.10035@unet.net.com> <6496@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1nhsb9INN63p@life.ai.mit.edu>
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mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>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.
Can't this be worked around with an explicit "sync ; sync ; sync ; halt" ?
-- richard
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richard childers pascal@netcom.com