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From: jacs@gnome.co.uk (Dr Chris Stenton )
Subject: My FreeBSD 1.5.1.1 box will not reboot
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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 10:27:01 GMT
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I have recently updated my FreeBSD box to a Pentium 90 EISA/PCI
(Neptune chipset) motherboard. The system works fine with either a
1742 or NCR PCI SCSI controller apart from one thing. The problem
being that when I try to reboot, the system gets as far saying
Rebooting ....
and thats it. The piece of code that does not seem to work is
as follows.
-----vm_machdep.c ---------
/*
* Force reset the processor by invalidating the entire address space!
*/
void
cpu_reset() {
/* force a shutdown by unmapping entire address space ! */
bzero((caddr_t) PTD, NBPG);
/* "good night, sweet prince .... <THUNK!>" */
tlbflush();
/* NOTREACHED */
while(1);
}
The s/w mechanism used by DOS fdisk to reset the machine works OK
so I am not sure whats going on. Any ideas?
Chris
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