Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:22:03 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: chx0@mail.opensol.com.ar (CHX0) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mariojd@isol.net Subject: Re: reboot Message-ID: <199601160922.KAA16756@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199601160049.VAA01982@mail.opensol.com.ar> from "CHX0" at Jan 15, 96 09:49:57 pm
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As CHX0 wrote: > > > 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 ? Nope, the CPU has a RESET pin, the PeeCee design doesn't have a well-defined register to activate it. > 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 ...:-( Strange. What the heck is a ``privileged instruction'' inside the kernel? -- 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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