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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16801 comp.os.os2.misc:127477 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!boulder!psych.colorado.edu!rsmith From: rsmith@psych.colorado.edu (Roderick Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: 486 machines that don't (always?) reboot Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.os2.misc Date: 21 Feb 1995 21:00:36 GMT Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3idk9l$9s8@lace.Colorado.EDU> References: <3hoc3r$fue@iaehv.IAEhv.nl> <AMBRISKO.95Feb14121547@libra> <3i9npi$vc@iaehv.IAEhv.nl> <3iagpt$29f@dagny.galt.com> <3id6tj$e7e@news.cloud9.net> <3id88d$3ol@gate.sinica.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: psych.colorado.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Carmay Lim (lim@gate.sinica.edu.tw) wrote: : Thor Lancelot Simon (tls@cloud9.net) wrote: : : : : Actually, this might have something to do with the BIOS on some PCI : : motherboards. I hve an SP3G (with an AMD processor) which not only won't : : reboot from NetBSD, but won't reboot from Novell DOS or OS/2, either. I : Just to toss in another datapoint... I mentioned this in another : article I posted about FreeBSD problems with the NCR53c810/Aries : chipset combo. I get this problem (no reboot) on my PVI-486AP4 PCI : motherboard whether I use an AMD 486DX4/100 or an Intel 486DX2/66. : Award 4.05G BIOS, Aries PCI chipset. : OS/2 Warp and (probably) Windows are both able to reboot my ISA/VLB : system consistently. I don't plan on installing either one on the PCI : machine though, but it would be interesting to see how they accomplish : this. Could someone with Warp on a PCI system tell us if they : experience this problem? I've got OS/2 Warp 3.0 and Linux 1.1.59 on an Asus SP3G revision 1.8 with Award BIOS 4.50G and an AMD 486DX2/66 CPU. I can reboot OS/2 to OS/2, Linux to Linux, or Linux to OS/2; but I get a message about SCSI devices not synching if I try to reboot (using <Ctrl-Alt-Del>) OS/2 to Linux. (I use SCSI hard drives exclusively, FWIW, on the built-in NCR 53c810 controller.) I'm using OS/2's Boot Manager, with Linux's LILO as a secondary loader for Linux only. -- --Rod Smith RSMITH@PSYCH.COLORADO.EDU