From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 26 19:21:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24363 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:21:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flarn.dyn.ml.org (root@usr215.third-wave.com [147.72.122.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24305 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:21:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@flarn.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from mph@localhost) by flarn.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00486; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 21:56:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mph) Message-ID: <19980626215627.A363@flarn.dyn.ml.org> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 21:56:27 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: Mike Smith , Josef Belkovics Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET Mail-Followup-To: Mike Smith , Josef Belkovics , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199806261429.HAA07142@antipodes.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199806261429.HAA07142@antipodes.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 07:29:31AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 07:29:31AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > My home pc (Cyrix 486DX4) does not a CPU reset via the keyboard controller > > or via invltbl() (/sys/i386/i386/vm_machdep.c). Is somebody able to say me > > patch which will reset through bios. Or in some other way. (Don't write - > > throw it out.) > > Write your own, if it matters that much to you. Look at how the VM86 > stuff calls the BIOS, find a suitable BIOS vector, and try it. And if you manage to do it, please contribute the code! When I was a FreeBSD newbie, I was stuck with such a motherboard. I switched to FreeBSD from Linux, and I could reboot it with "reboot=bios" in Linux. A friend of mine, and more experienced FreeBSD hacker, made a valiant effort to port the code, but we never did get it to work. I've ditched that motherboard (and the next one), but enough people still ask about this problem that I would like to be able to point to a fix. Matt -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message