Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Apr 2002 19:14:41 +0200 (CEST) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: Problems rebooting from linux to windows... |
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On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Arnvid Karstad wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > recently I've seen a few problems with several laptops and if one are so > > unfortunate that one needs to reboot into Windows after a session in linux. > > Normal restart of windows never have a problem on the same machines, but if > > you go from Linux to for instance Windows by shutdown -r or reboot it will > > freeze half way into the booting process. > > > > A power cycle will hower fix this. > > > > Anyone got an idea about where to start looking? > > > > Best regards > > > > Arnvid Karstad > > I have this same problem on my Compaq Presario. I think that this > is because the BIOS was shadowed and used some writable-RAM somewhere. > Linux seems to do a 'warm-boot'. The result being that some of the > stuff that the BIOS counts on was wiped out by Linux, i.e., > stuff from E000:0000 -> E000:FFFF (the BIOS is normally at F000:0000). > > My 'fix' is to cold-boot, i.e., processor reset during the shutdown.
FWIW, I also have a Presario, and reboot frequently between Windbloz and Linux with zero problems. I've seen many many many problems wrt Compaq (mostly crap bios) and Linux over the years, but ATM, I don't have any. (I put total >$20k into a 386-20 believe it or not.. was shit hot box at the time:)
-Mike
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