Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Billy Newsom writes:
BN> ...and that's all I ever see. But while this is being printed to the BN> screen, I get five beeps. I don't remember that many beeps in FreeBSD 4.x. BN> BN> BEEP, beep beep beep, BEEP
See http://bioscentral.com for a list of beep codes for many different BIOS. Most BIOS seem to use BEEP beep beep beep for video or memory errors, but check and see.
I'm don't think that this is a BIOS issue. The beeps may be from FreeBSD, I believe.
Can anyone tell me if one of the routines in the kernel beeps during a reboot?
If it is the BIOS, that beep code means that the first 64K of memory is bad, but obviously this would seem like a strange beep code during a reboot. The way I understand beep codes is that they should happen during a POST. But looking at my console, I still see the stuff that you cropped out of my original post on my screen, namely, the
cpu_reset: Stopping other CPUs
In other words, it appears that the beeps are coming from the FreeBSD 5.3 kernel, and not the BIOS. But since perhaps the cpu_reset may be somewhat successful you may be right... The beeps could be BIOS beeps.
I know, however, that this computer always did its reboots properly when I ran FreeBSD 4.7. So meanwhile, I have been looking at the changes to this file:
http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/diff/i386/i386/vm_machdep.c?v=RELENG4;diffvar=v;diffval=RELENG5
The above link shows a diff between FreeBSD 4-Stable and 5-Stable. The differences are numerous, and some are in the middle of the cpu_reset function which could be the problem. I may try seeing if a freebsd-hacker might have some input. I almost began this post in the hackers list, but I tried here first, as is my duty.
But I don't see any reason for the beeps looking into the FreeBSD kernel, either, so I may be barking up the wrong tree.
BN> I don't know how long I've waited for the system to reboot, but so far BN> it hasn't.
If the BIOS is unhappy, it's not going to reboot.
That's true. But I wonder why it's not? My memory has never failed a test during a POST, so failing on the reboot seems very odd. On another twist, I happen to be buying a complete new set of memory for this machine to max it out. I wonder if that will fix it?!
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