[ forwarding my mail to casper to the forum because I forgot to do a
reply-all.
following is the current status. Will update the forum once the issue is
fixed. ]
Casper,
Thanks for your prompt response.
Last few hours of further googling suggested that my problem is similar to:
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread26110.html
means the issue could be more with corrupt BIOS or dead memory.
I also tried the options like removing battery etc. It didn't help.
The system doesn't have a reset button.
At this time, I need to explore the faulty Memory/BIOS route to
troubleshoot. I will keep the forum posted about the progress, in
about a week.
The only reason why I suspected frkit is that once I added the
battery montor to the gnome panel, removed the power card and
started moving in a wireless enabled floor, the system froze.
While rebooting the system with a hard power on, I experienced
the said problem for the first time. May be it is just a coincidence
that frkit is very recently installed.
As I said, I will keep the forum posted.
Regards,
- Raju
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On 6/12/06, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote:
>
>
> >Installed B 41 on Toshiba Tecra S1, along with wifi drivers etc. Life was
> >fine until I downloaded and installed frkit. After installing frkit, the
> >reboot process:
> >
> >a. Either hangs with a beep sound even before it prompts for boot
> selection
> >and grub while powering on
> >b. Or starts with a series of beeps and never proceeds after power on.
> >
> >In either case, the laptop screen is not lit and there is no disc
> activity
> >shown by the LED.
> >
> >frkit is downloaded as of Sunday night US time (June 11th) so they are
> >latest and greatest.
>
> This is an extremely weird failure more as the frkit drivers are
> not involved until much later in boot.
>
> Try powering off the system, removing battery and AC and then wait a
> while.
>
> Does the system have a reset button? (Some laptops have a pin-hole
> reset button on the bottom)
>
> Casper
>
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--
On 6/12/06, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote:
>
>
> >Installed B 41 on Toshiba Tecra S1, along with wifi drivers etc. Life was
> >fine until I downloaded and installed frkit. After installing frkit, the
> >reboot process:
> >
> >a. Either hangs with a beep sound even before it prompts for boot
> selection
> >and grub while powering on
> >b. Or starts with a series of beeps and never proceeds after power on.
> >
> >In either case, the laptop screen is not lit and there is no disc
> activity
> >shown by the LED.
> >
> >frkit is downloaded as of Sunday night US time (June 11th) so they are
> >latest and greatest.
>
> This is an extremely weird failure more as the frkit drivers are
> not involved until much later in boot.
>
> Try powering off the system, removing battery and AC and then wait a
> while.
>
> Does the system have a reset button? (Some laptops have a pin-hole
> reset button on the bottom)
>
> Casper
>
--
--
Raju & Srilatha Alluri
spurthi at gmail.com
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