On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote:
Till last week, my Debian/Testing installation was working very well.
Last week I did an "apt-get upgrade". For the last few days, every time
I boot, it goes all the way to the login prompt (disabled X for now),
and even lets me login. After about 1-2 minutes of uptime, it just
reboots. No Kernel Panic, no oops, no nothing. I also have a Windows
installation on the same machine, which is working fine (can rule out
hardware issues?).
Here is a list of things I have tried (and none helped)
* Single user mode (rule out initscripts)
* linux acpi=off apm=power_off (rule out power management)
* Boot into knoppix v 3.3 (works without a problem) and do an
"apt-get upgrade" of the debian installation (on the hard disk).
* Use a older kernel (2.4.25-1-386), instead of my usual 2.4.26-1-686.
* I have also updated the kernel image, etc. (after going through a few
hoops) to run mkinitrd from knoppix)
All these have failed. Any suggestions?
I have a Intel 2.4GHz processor, 512 MB RAM.
Make sure the module 810_tco is not being loaded by hotplug braindamage.
Boot in emergency mode, remove the module from the disk (or configure
hotplug to blacklist it). That should do it.
Some boards malfunction with it, and the watchdog triggers, effectively
rebooting your machine without any sort of warning.
Of course, that only holds if you have an Intel chipset.