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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 01:02:56 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        chx0@mail.opensol.com.ar (CHX0)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: reboot
Message-ID:  <199601160002.BAA13827@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601151450.LAA14696@mail.opensol.com.ar> from "CHX0" at Jan 15, 96 11:50:38 am

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As CHX0 wrote:
> 
> My system running 2.1.0-RELEASE doesn't reboot even after setting
> BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET ni the new rebuilt kernel (the whole change
> is that now it doesn't print the message that the keyboard reset
> didn't work). Any clue about this ? Does FreeBSD attempt to do a
> cold or a warm boot ? does it use int 19 h ?

There's no reliable way to cold boot a PeeCee.  Send your ovations for
this sin to Big Blue, please.  The result of a broken cold boot is
what you're seeing...

No, FreeBSD doesn't use int 0x19, it doesn't have access to the BIOS,
and all int 0x19 does is just jumping to 0xffff0.  (Unless a virus has
been trapping int 0x19 while you were in DOS. :-)

My machine at work doesn't reboot completely either, btw.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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