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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 1996 16:20:28 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: reboot beeps 
Message-ID:  <199606182320.QAA12066@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jun 1996 20:05:06 %2B0200." <199606181805.UAA11040@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> 

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>I installed a three days old kernel today - maybe one shouldn't do, eh?
>Anyway,  it costs me a drive to the campus at present when I
>type 
>
>sync ; reboot
>
>since it hangs with a black screen and beeps. This machine has been one
>of my most reliably remotely rebootable machines for over a year. I
>understand that there were changes in the keyboard reset code (delays etc.)
>but that it has to be broken so miserably...
>
>I added a second WD8013 card though but I can't imagine that being the
>culprit.

   The new 16bit ethernet card is probably interfering with the 8bit BIOS ROM
that is on the VGA card. I have a workaround in the driver for this, but
perhaps there is a case that doesn't work right.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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