Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:38:43 -0400 | From | Ted Garrett <> | Subject | Re: Am486/100 writeback processor reboot woes |
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Richard Adams wrote: > >>> On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Toni Nikkanen wrote: >>>> Linux has never been able to start a reboot on my AMD 486/100 processor, <snippit>
> I have a 486SX/33 AMD for 3 years now its never rebooted like it should, not > even with 1.0.9, i never found one kernel which it rebooted properly, the > 1.2.x series i patched every patch, and tryed most kernels, not one rebooted > properly, same symtom as Toni described. > > I now have also a 486/100 AMD Toni, it reboots fine. But it would be nice to > find out why, the old 486SX/33 runs standalone now, so i cant reboot via > remote.
The problem is the motherboard's BIOS. Some motherboards support soft-reboot and some don't. I had this problem running an AMD486/100 with an early AWARD bios. Got a new motherboard running a later revision of AWARD bios, and it went away. Later changed to yet another motherboard running AMI bios, and the problem didn't come back. Now I test every motherboard I get, and if it doesn't reboot correctly, I send it back.
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