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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!Germany.EU.net!hcshh!hm From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: EISA experiences? Message-ID: <2491@hcshh.hcs.de> Date: 11 Jul 93 10:38:55 GMT References: <21f1t9$r3c@pandora.sdsu.edu> <C9yM7o.4uy@obiwan.uucp> Organization: HCS GmbH, Hamburg, Europe Lines: 21 In <C9yM7o.4uy@obiwan.uucp> bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox) writes: >I just converted obiwan from ISA to EISA and moved from ESIX 5.3.2D to >386bsd on it (I had already been running 386bsd on a couple of other >systems for awhile). I seem to have a couple of problems that may be >related to the hardware: >1. Warm boot does not work. On my ISA based systems the reboot command > or halt followed by any key will successfully reboot them. With > obiwan (the EISA system) I must press the reset button or power off/ > power on cycle it (from DOS the usual Ctl-Alt-Del sequence works). I had exactly the same problems with my EISA machine. The problem was, that i enabled the option "WD8013" in my config file. After removing that, i was able to warm boot again. The explanation of this can be found in the current "unofficial" FAQ. hellmuth -- hellmuth michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH hamburg, europe hm@hcshh.hcs.de tel: +49/40/55903-170 fax: +49/40/5591486