Bug 42794

Summary:	Asks for "ew Password" then unexpectably reboots during install
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Jeff Jensen <jeffreyjensen1>
Component:	i386	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Jeff Jensen 2002-09-15 06:20:01 UTC

On my old K6-2 machine with 64 megs of PC100 and a 4 megabyte video card while installing the packages it stops and displays, "ew Password?"  After typing in a password it says, "Retype Password" and after retyping it it reboots my computer.  I have tried about 7 different approaches to installing (off of burned cdroms) and all of them are plagued by this.

Fix: 

no idea...
How-To-Repeat: Try installing freeBSD on a computer identical to mine?

Comment 1 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer

2003-07-19 00:04:23 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This sounds like bad hardware.  k6-2 CPUs are notoriously hot 
and require heavy-duty CPU cooling.