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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE!acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de!kuku From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: rebooting (was Re: 2nd drive file ...) Keywords: warm boot reboot fsck Message-ID: <1992Aug17.110007.22525@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Date: 17 Aug 92 11:00:07 GMT Sender: news@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Newsfiles Owner) Reply-To: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de Organization: I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen Lines: 42 Nntp-Posting-Host: acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de In article <1992Aug15.015736.2417@werple.pub.uu.oz.au> andrew@werple.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Herbert) writes: >STDN%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Dan Newcombe) writes: >>3) Rebooting: My system refuses to reboot without me hitting the >> RESET switch on the unit. >Same with my Micronics 486/33-EISA motherboard. The kernel code for rebooting >appears to implicitly force a reboot (at least, for most people :-) by walking >over processor tables, rather than being direct and getting the keyboard >controller to do it (the way my UNIX SVR4 does it). Once I get the hang of >what to tell this controller, I'll try to fix it! I'm having the same problem with my 386SX 16Mhz/8MB (Morse board) 386BSD system. When the system does a reboot after e.g. a power fail or someone hit the Reset key so that a fsck has to be performed with a subsequent warm boot then the system hangs. This is extremely unpleasant because I then always have to drive from home to the University Campus just to press the reset button once more. Bill Jolitz sent once sent me a comment on this but I lost that mail. Is this a kernel bug? Does it depend on the size of the kernel ? Is there a fix? Now something totally off topic: I'm relatively new to USENET and I often see followup articles which are neatly formatted, indented with > or >>, containing a line like "In article <1992Aug15.015736.2417@werple.pub.uu.oz.au> someone writes:". I'm using dxrn (DecWindows xrn on a DS3100) and it takes me a hell lot of time to e.g. prepare this article, write the indentation marks, cut the Message-ID (is this really the correct field to uniquely identify a message?) and paste it in front of my posting. How does a wizard read news? --Chris ----------------------------------------------------------------- kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de *** Error code 1 Stop.