Spontaneous reboots with splash

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com
Thu Oct 22 12:21:41 UTC 2015


On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:59 AM, Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it> wrote:

> On 10/22/15 13:48, Ernie Luzar wrote:
>
> Read the handbook section about splash.
>> Your splash.bmp file has to be under 320x200 in size. For a bmp file
>> over that size you need to also load the VESA module.
>>
>> vesa_load="YES"
>>
>
> Hello Ernie and thanks for your time.
>
> I read that section (again), but found nothing new.
>
> My bitmap is 320x200x8, so it should be fine: it actually displays, so
> that's not the problem; frequent reboots are.
>
> Besides, I'm using this on several boxes and all but this one works fine
> (all without VESA).
>
>
>  bye & Thanks
>         av.
> _______________________________________________
>
>

Another possibility is that a program is broken ( contains an invalid
address ) in HDD . When it starts to working  , it jumps to that broken
address and this may start the boot .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list