[Soekris] harddisk disappears after reboot on net4801/openbsd

[Jochen Eisinger]

Hi,

Johnny Vestergaard schrieb:
> 
> On Dec 21, 2006, at 11:47 PM, Jochen Eisinger wrote:
> 
>> when I reboot my soekris (especially, when the hardware watchdog does),
> 
> If watchdog reboots your system i would suspect some kind of hardware
> failure. I would enable smart on the hdd and check for trouble. 
> If you use watchdog as a 'fire and forget' utility, you are bound to run
> into trouble.
the reason for the reboot is a panic in the kernel related to faulty
memory allocation (i.e. a software bug).

I don't think that the harddisk is broken, since BIOS detects it
correctly and the boot-loader obviously is able to load the bsd image
from it.

regards
-- jochen