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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Failing reboot.
To: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:17:10 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199601181543.CAA03277@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> from "michael butler" at Jan 19, 96 02:43:51 am
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> > My system won't reboot. When I press any key at the message 
>  
> > "Press any key to reboot..."
>  
> > Nothing happens.
> 
> > Looking into the code I see that my sweet prince is put to sleep the
> > hard way, but he doesn't wake up anymore.
> 
> Seriously, there are two possibilities .. some BIOS implementations have a
> setting which is marked "keyboard controller reset" and simply bouncing that
> to the other setting fixes the problem. The other is that you might try
> recompiling your kernel with the BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET option (as documented
> in LINT),

Or another possiblity (a remote one) is replacing your motherboard that
hard resets when the processor triple faults (this is what the machine
is forced into when the keyboard reset fails).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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