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Date:      Sat, 13 Jan 1996 12:39:42 +0100 (MET)
From:      Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        jacek@petex1.petex.bielsko.pl, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Keyboard reset ....
Message-ID:  <199601131139.MAA00390@mordillo>
In-Reply-To: <199601120239.NAA14674@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 12, 96 01:09:09 pm

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hasn't Michael Smith said ? ...
> 
> jacek stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > I have 2.1 installed on my computer since 1 month. Everything is OK, 
> > but...when I issue a 'halt' command I receive following messages:
> > "syncing disks ...4 3 1 done
> > The operating system has halted.
> > Please press any key to reboot."
> > And when I press a key I got
> > "Rebooting...
> > Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown" and I have to press 
> > reset buton to reboot.
> > What's wrong ? Please help. Thanks in advance 
> 
> Your motherboard refuses to reboot using either of the two 'standard' 
> methods.  Unless someone sits down and works out what it is about a
> (small) number of systems that makes them behave like this, you're stuck
> with this problem.
> 
have you tried 'options "BROAKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET"' in your kernel
config and/or playing around with the "keyboard reset control" option
in your BIOS (if you have such) - this worked for me

t
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