Re: init justs reboots the system out of the blue

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a very strange problem with my mipsel system. I boot via
> network and nfs-root, activate NBD devices and then
> 
> cd /mnt
> exec chroot . /sbin/init
> 
> The system boots up till the login prompt and everything seems
> fine. But after a while (if I login or not) I get:
> 
> | Broadcast message from root (Sat Aug  7 07:01:27 2004):
> | 
> | The system is going down for system halt NOW!
> 
> and the system goes down the drain.

This sounds like an active watchdog without a demon feeding it.


Thiemo