Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: software reset | From | James Stevenson <> | Date | 01 May 2003 00:12:37 +0100 |
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Hi
1 way to get a garentee reboot is to use a 2nd computer a parrell port and a resistor + relay and get the relay to short the reset pins on the MB of the machine you wish to reboot.
You could set this up to reboot up 2 8 machine usign cheap hardware like a 486 or something.
On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 15:37, joe briggs wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to absolutely force a reset on a i386? Specifically, > is there a system call that will call the assembly instruction to assert the > RESET bus line? I try to use the "reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_RESTART,0,0,NULL)" > call, but it will not always work. Occassionally, I experience a "missed > interrupt" on a Promise IDE controller, and while I can telnet into the > system, I can't reset it. Any help greatly appreciated! Since these systems > are 1000's of miles away, the need to remotely reset it paramont. > > > -- > Joe Briggs > Briggs Media Systems > 105 Burnsen Ave. > Manchester NH 01304 USA > TEL/FAX 603-232-3115 MOBILE 603-493-2386 > www.briggsmedia.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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