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From: Eric Chet <echet@coil.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.05R reboot hangs
To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 13:46:54 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199506221725.KAA06690@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jun 22, 95 10:25:21 am
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> 
> > 
> > Hallo Rod & Bug-Readers,
> > 
> > > > sometimes the reboot hangs on an 486-DX4-100 PCI (ASUS4SP3G - Board).
> > > 
> > > CHeck that you have your external cache set to write-through mode,
> > > and ISA GAT mode disabled in the BIOS setup screens.
> > > 
> > Well Rod, thank you for the hint (it was not on write-through 
> > and ISA GAT was enabled), but the problem remains;
> > 
> > and it seems, that about each 2nd reboot fails.
> > 
> > any further suggestions ?
> 
> Have you customized the kernel for the machine?  Or are you running
> the GENERIC kernel.  I have had 2 sites report ASUS-PCI/I-486SP3G boot
> hangs when using the GENERIC kernel (though I can not duplicate them
> here) that went away once they built a kernel specifically for the
> hardware they had.
> 
> Have you triple checked your SCSI bus termination, and when the hang
> happens does your SCSI drive LED tend to be on solid indicating a
> scsi bus hang?

Hello
	I have a ASUS-SP3G W/i486DX2/66.  I have the same problem, it hangs
during reboot 30% of the time.  I don't have any problems with my scsi bus.
There are two quantum drives and a plextor CDROM on the scsi bus.  I 
compiled a custom kernel a week ago.

Eric
echet@coil.com
 
> 
> 
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