On 01/20/16 02:48, Armelius Cameron wrote:
Sorry for my lag in response, in between work meetings with
non-working laptop has made this an onerous day!
So I've tried the following kernel options, all to no-avail:
"systemd.unit=multi-user.target", still reboot after a few seconds, so
does this option remove video driver issue (radeon) ?
"acpi=off" or "noapic", kernel won't boot at all
Scrolling through the journal the only thing that caught my eyes is
the message "watchdog1 watchdog did not step". Searching on the web,
this caught my attention
(
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt):
"A Watchdog Timer (WDT) is a hardware circuit that can reset the
computer system in case of a software fault.", which makes me go
"hm... does the kernel think it needs reboot all the time"
So I tried modifying the timeout in /etc/systemd/system.conf, but that
doesn't seem to have any effect either.
You may be suffering from a series of unfortunate coincidences.
I had a similar scenario a few years back. The frequency wasn't as great as yours,
but
the system would reboot at random times. Turned out to be a power supply issue.
I'd be looking at hardware since you've said the reboot happens at random points
in the
boot process.
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In reality, some people should stick to running Windows and others should stay away from
computers altogether.