Messages in this thread |  | | From | Herbert Rosmanith <> | Subject | Re: GA5486, can't reboot (2) | Date | Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:18:16 +0200 (MET DST) |
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> Herbert> I have a a5486 board, which does not reboot. after > Herbert> unmounting all filesystems and writing "Rebooting", the > Herbert> screen goes blank, but after that you'll wait infinitely on > Herbert> a reboot. under m$/dos, rebooting works. is it done a > Herbert> different way (i.e. jmp far fffffff0) ? > > I think the BIOS reboots from MSDOS, the same way as Linux does it.
Have you a portion of disassembled BIOS code ?
> I have several motherboards for which this doesn't work (maybe they are > all misconfigured). So, I have a patch, if you are interested, which > reboots in much the way you suggested. (I.e., switch to real mode and > jump to the BIOS reset routine).
I *am* interested in this patch - I was planning to write it myself once I had time ... please send it to me :)
/herp
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