Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Apr 2002 00:26:05 +0200 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: Tyan S2462 reboot problems |
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:14:12PM -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > Hi. > > No, I doubt this has anything to do with Linux. I have a S2460 > (which his corrected post says he has), which does not power down > under linux, and *never* warm boots cleanly. It does power down under > windows, so I assume ACPI powerdown works and APM does not. I have > gone under the assumption that a BIOS upgrade will fix this, but that > involves putting a floppy into the box, so I haven't done it yet. The > warm boot problems consist of either a hang after POST (but before > bootloader, OS irrelevent), or really bad video corruption. I don't > know if it boot with the video corruption, I've never let it try.
Uhm, no, you don't need a floppy in your computer to upgrade the BIOS; I upgraded it for this TYAN 2466 today, using /dev/bios <http://www.freiburg.linux.de/OpenBIOS/status/devbios.html> and it worked perfectly fine.
That said, using the in-kernel ACPI should probably work for powerdown.
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