From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 25 16:10:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A72A37B41F; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:10:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC67D43EC2; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:10:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gAQ0A6bC089583; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:10:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:10:06 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Terry Lambert Cc: Marcin Dalecki , Kris Kennaway , Robert Watson , Mikhail Teterin , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current unusable after a crash Message-ID: <20021126001003.GA8636@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200211250959.39594.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <20021125172445.GA8953@rot13.obsecurity.org> <3DE29DE6.CDD96F3F@mindspring.com> <3DE2AF65.9000502@gmx.net> <3DE2B740.4206206E@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DE2B740.4206206E@mindspring.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 25), Terry Lambert said: > Marcin Dalecki wrote: > > > I don't think this is really possible. > > > > > > I went looking for a generic "application use" CMOS are for this > > > sort of thing a while back, and I was unable to find one. > > > > Well you should please take a look at the "fast boot" option of > > moderately modern BIOS-es. Somthing along those lines went right > > now in to the linux kernel. Seems pretty adequate to me, since you > > would be even able to controll it through the BIOS setup... > > Is there documentation available for this anywhere? The BIOS vendor > documentation, not the Linux source code. http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/resources/specs/simp_bios.asp http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/resources/specs/simp_boot.asp is the best I could find; you'll need a Word doc viewer. It's mainly geared toward detecting boot failure rather than abnormal shutdowns, though. What we need is a matching "Simple Shutdown Flag" variable. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message