From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 01:57:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA01031 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 01:57:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA00935 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 01:56:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA02314; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:51:33 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA27123; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:51:32 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA16756; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:22:03 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601160922.KAA16756@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: reboot To: chx0@mail.opensol.com.ar (CHX0) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:22:03 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mariojd@isol.net Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601160049.VAA01982@mail.opensol.com.ar> from "CHX0" at Jan 15, 96 09:49:57 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)