Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:19:31 -0600 (CST) | From | "Christian Holtje <>" <> | Subject | Re: Linux reboot |
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On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, William E. Roadcap wrote:
> I boot my Linux partition using Loadlin from DOS. When I boot directly > into Linux, reboot works fine (most of the time). However, if I boot into > DOS first (doing nothing else) and then run Loadlin I experience the same > results as PL has reported. This indicates that something in memory is > not as Linux expects it when reboot executes. As I also have had isolated > instances of reboot hanging when I booted correctly, I suspect that it is > possible to break this memory connection without the help of DOS.
That reminds me....when I boot from dos via LOADLIN and I was running QEMM (with it's quick-reboot feature), and then reboot in LINUX it just freezes (like this guy said). No such problem under DOS with HIMEM or no memory manager. I suppose this is a problem for the LOADLIN programer(s) tho...
Christian G. Holtje (aka Doctor What)
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