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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:32:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Vladislav S. Davidzon" <davidzon@metronet.lib.mi.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Rebooting via BIOS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980123123210.8161G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980120153939.3181A-100000@metronet.lib.mi.us>

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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Vladislav S. Davidzon wrote:

> This is my second post to the list.  I have a 486 machine 
> which used to run linux, now converted to FreeBSD.  In order
> to get it to reboot (at all) in Linux I had to pass a
> reboot=bios to the kernel at boot time via Lilo.  How would
> I do this under FreeBSD?  It currently hangs right before
> it should reboot (says rebooting and then hangs).  The
> keyboard fix in the kernel did not work (the don't reboot
> with the keyboard thing).

Someone answered this already.  Are you sure your mail address is OK?

Try building a new kernel with 

options BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET

See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ for instructions on rebuilding your
kernel.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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