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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
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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
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