debian rebooting..

From: Roger (grunky_at_rockriver.net)
Date: 08/18/04

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    I downloaded the netinstall cd off this url

    http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status

    The machine its being installed on is a Supermicro p4sca machine. The
    install went smoothly enough but after that things get complicated.
    After booting up I get asked my standard post confiurations questions.
    As I answer then - the machine reboots(feels almost like a power cycle -
    screen goes black, you hear a beep).. Thinking this was a fluke I
    rebooted - began entering my info, timezone, user info - etc.. And the
    machine reboots agian. The third time I just let it reboot and did
    nothing. Still the machine reboots after about 20 to 30 seconds.

    I re-burned the cd, re-installed - deleteing the partition table- still
    same result - a spontanious reboot during post install setup.. This
    machine had been a perfectly happy RH9 box before but decided to switch
    to Sarge...

    After looking around I found this bug report

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248442

    After upgrading the bios and dinkering w/ some bios settings - relating
    to RAID and SATA I re-installed. Same problem.... I tried combine
    mode, sata only, enhanced mode.... no dice.

    I've also tried the net install image listed here

    http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20040816/

    After downloading this image the machine doesn't even recognise the cd
    as a bootable cd. Toss in a RH9 or Fedora cd and away it goes.

    Interestingly the machine will boot just fine into recovery mode.. If I
    boot into recovery mode, then type

    'init 3'

    the machine reboots shortly their after. Anyone using a Supermicro box
    run into this problem or have any luck getting around this?

    P.S. As a last ditch effort I tried the bizcard install aswell - still
    same result. 

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