Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:43:22 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: Freebsd Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SC520 and reboot Message-ID: <23707.1071348202@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:40:59 %2B0200." <E1AVGZP-000CgE-7e@cs.huji.ac.il>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In message <E1AVGZP-000CgE-7e@cs.huji.ac.il>, Danny Braniss writes: >> In message <20031213113122.T65254@carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White writes: >> >On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Danny Braniss wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> this Elan based board is now running 5.2-CURRENT, but typing >> >> reboot, causes the machine to stop, the leds to go off, and after power >> >> cycle, the bios setup is cleared! >> > >> >How useful. Is this a Soekris system? >> >> Wild guess: adjkerntz -a ? > >I fail to see the connection, though when the bios is clean up, the time goes back to January 6, 1980 :-) If you run adjkerntz -a it fiddles the CMOS RTC clock and possibly the "century" byte I think. If your BIOS uses a checksum on the RTC and adjkerntz doesn't know about it, your BIOS will think the contents is trashed. Try booting to single user and shut down immediately, does it still happen then ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?23707.1071348202>