Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 1998 09:41:50 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Not rebooting. |
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Hi!
> Specifying 'reboot=bios' does work however, which leads me to a question: > > If the default method of rebooting without the BIOS (using keyboard/triple > fault) doesn't work, why does the current code sit in an infinite loop when > it would be just as easy to attempt that a certain number of times and then > attempt the BIOS instead?
Because triplefaulting means crashing processor. And you can not do anything after you crashed you CPU. And changing methods will not work, IMO: BIOS simply will not reboot, and it may not even return control.
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