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To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: reboot beeps 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 16:20:28 -0700
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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