From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 19:48:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA07134 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 19:48:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.opensol.com.ar (mail.opensol.com.ar [200.26.38.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA07102 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 19:47:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chx0@localhost) by mail.opensol.com.ar (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA01982; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 21:49:57 -0300 From: CHX0 Message-Id: <199601160049.VAA01982@mail.opensol.com.ar> Subject: Re: reboot To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 21:49:57 -0300 (ARG) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mariojd@isol.net In-Reply-To: <199601160002.BAA13827@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 16, 96 01:02:56 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 Or to Intel ? > 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. I've been playing around with some chipset options on my DX4/100 1994 AMI motherboard, to handle Rset Control and A20 either through the chipset or through the Keyboard controller. All I got is a panic :privilege instruction fault while in kernel mode, running process was reboot, IP was 0x8:0xf01ac471 ...:-( > > -- > 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. ;-) >