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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!werple.apana.org.au!news From: ernie@werple.apana.org.au (Ernie Elu) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Constant rebooting of hard drive (PLEASE HELP) Date: 9 Mar 1993 23:29:33 +1000 Organization: Werple, Public Access *NIX, Oz Lines: 22 Message-ID: <1ni63tINNk76@werple.apana.org.au> References: <C38sIK.nw@acsu.buffalo.edu> <6497@krafla.rhi.hi.is> NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au In article <6497@krafla.rhi.hi.is> adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes: >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 have just started having the same problem for no apparent reason. I can't seem to mount the hard disk at all. It will boot from the floppy all the time. disklabel -r wd0 seems to find the drive info 872 track 8 head 35 sec/track etc. But it just goes into this reboot loop all the time. Any suggestions ? Thanks in advance - Ernie.