Subject: Re: constant reboots...
To: Sledge Hammer <sledge@centras.lt>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/21/2002 23:13:57
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 10:49:38PM +0200, Sledge Hammer wrote:
> 
> I get constant reboots from my pc :(
> 
> Sometimes, when dmesg reaches "root file system type: ffs" PC reboots instantly!
> 
> I've changed some settings in my BIOS:
>     Peripherial Setup->VIA Onboard PCI IDE from "Both" to "Primary"
>     PCI Setup -> Assign IRQ To PCI VGA from "Yes" to "No"
> 
> That's the way I can sometimtes load my NetBSD 1.6 at least experience some 15mins of using it, until another
> reboot! :(
> 
> (I've installed it on another PC, because there everything ran correctly - on my Cyrix i even could not get it
> installed. newfs was rebooting with this vital error message:
> pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
>  type: ata tc_bcount: 8192 tc_skip: 0
> pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x61
> wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 1
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 1 (using DMA data transfers)
> cd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 3, DMA mode 1 (using DMA data transfers)
> wd0e: DMA error writing fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd0 bn 1618864; cn 1606 tn 0 sn 16), retrying
> wd0: soft error (corrected)

You say it was rebooting ... what do you mean ? This error is not fatal.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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