Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:13:21 -0400 | From | "Darrin R. Smith" <> | Subject | Re: rebooting |
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Ian Main wrote: > > > > > Here's a problem that I have had ever since linux 1.1.59, when i started > > two years ago. When i issue a reboot commands (ie: shutdown -rt5 now) > > the mahcine unmounts the filesystems, and then says Done. it halts there > > and never reboots. It's kind of frusterating becuasei can't reboot my > > mqchine remotely, if i need to... It's a run of the mill Intel 486/100 > > with 16 meg in it... it's got a WD 540, S3 video card, SB16, and Boca 28.8 > > modem. I think that's it... any help is greatly appreciated.. I've asked > > around for a long time with no luck > > > > Hmm.. well, I was having a problem like this with my friends machine. It > was a Cyrix 586 120 though. We managed to fiddle around in the BIOS long > enough get it to work. I can't remember which exact setting it was, but > it seems to me it was a write back cache or something.. (hmmm.. I wish I > could remember) Anyway, we fiddled long enough, and got it to work. :) > > Ian
Yeah -- I've had this problem for a while, too. It started when I upgraded my motherboard/processor to an AMD 486-80 on a SIS chipset.
To fix it, I've been using a patch that was posted to this list a while back. The patch basically switches the processor back into real mode and then jumps into the bootstrap code. It isn't a perfect reset since the reset line doesn't get pulsed, but it does the job. Somewhere around 2.0.4, arch/i386/kernel/process.c changed, and the patch no longer applies cleanly. Maybe if I get some spare time, I'll fix it up and repost it.
--Darrin
-- FAQ Suggestions: Q: I upgraded without reading release notes, now my system's broke - why? A: What the @!#* did you expect? (this assumes that someone reads the faq, of course ;)
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