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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:22:03 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        chx0@mail.opensol.com.ar (CHX0)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mariojd@isol.net
Subject:   Re: reboot
Message-ID:  <199601160922.KAA16756@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601160049.VAA01982@mail.opensol.com.ar> from "CHX0" at Jan 15, 96 09:49:57 pm

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As CHX0 wrote:
> 
> > There's no reliable way to cold boot a PeeCee.  Send your ovations for
> > this sin to Big Blue, please.  The result of a broken cold boot is
> Or to Intel ?

Nope, the CPU has a RESET pin, the PeeCee design doesn't have a
well-defined register to activate it.

> I've been playing around with some chipset options on my DX4/100
> 1994 AMI motherboard, to handle Rset Control and A20 either through
> the chipset or through the Keyboard controller. All I got
> is a panic :privilege instruction fault while in
> kernel mode, running process was reboot, IP was 0x8:0xf01ac471 ...:-(

Strange.  What the heck is a ``privileged instruction'' inside the
kernel?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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