Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:50:04 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: software reset |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > The most reliable way is to force a triple fault; load zero into > the IDT register and then trigger an exception. The linux kernel > does that in fact for reboot and so far I haven't seen any machine failing > to reset yet.
There are some 486s which don't boot on triple fault, nor on asking the keyboard controller to pulse the reset line. Hence the 3rd option, "reboot=bios".
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