Weird reboots from bootmgr or loader

Florian Smeets flo at kasimir.com
Tue Aug 5 10:36:05 PDT 2003


Lukas Ertl wrote:
> 
> I saw _exactly_ the same problem on one of my boxes today: it was
> shutdowned correctly yesterday, and today it wouldn't boot, but panic
> right after boot0. The only thing I could see were some hex numbers and
> "BTX halted" for a split second, then immediately reboot. It's a -current
> box from Sunday evening CEST.
> 
> I managed to fix it by booting from floppies and running the Fixit floppy,
> writing a new disklabel, which seems to have become corrupted somehow.
> 

Yes this really did the trick! :-)

thanks Lukas!

regards,
flo



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