Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:06:44 +0100 | Subject | Re: Linux reboot |
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On 26 Mar 96 at 10:18, William E. Roadcap wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, PAER LINDH wrote: > > > > > I have always wondered why Linux never reboots by itself when I type > > reboot or press CTRL-ALT-DEL. I will have to press the reset button > > manually. It just stops after the text > > > > rebooting > > > > has appeared on the screen. This has happened ever since I switched CPU > > to a AMD DX4-120. Before on my AMD DX2-66 it rebooted fine. > > In MS-DOS/Windows the rebooting works fine. > > I have had this problem and was unable to fix it. It's nothing to really > worry about, you may have to live with it. > The code (all from meory) tried to reset the system via keyboard controller and hardware reset. If that fails the system goes into a busy loop (not cli; hlt). Maybe we can have some fancy keyboard light show instead (to notify the user that the system is ready for reset)?
Ulrich
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