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linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > > With Linux-2.4.26 I reported that if a Compaq gets rebooted while > running Linux-2.4.26, it will not be able to restart Windows 2000. > It cam restart Linux fine. Today, I tried the same thing with > Linux-2.6.13.4. It fails, too. > > The symptoms are that you just "reboot" Linux. When the GRUB loader > comes up, I select my Windows-2000/professional. That M$ Crap comes > up to where it's just about to start the high-resolution screen. > Then it stops forever, no interrupts, no nothing. I need to disconnect > power and remove the battery to recover. > > It appears as though Linux is still restarting as a "warm boot", > rather than a cold boot (in other words, putting magic in the > shutdown byte of CMOS) so the hardware doesn't get properly > initialized. Would somebody please check this out. When changing > operating systems, you need a cold-boot. This sounds more like the BIOS is not properly reinitializing all hardware and expects it to be in some state which Linux does not leave it in. BIOS update available? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.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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