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- From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell)
- Subject: Re: linux 0.99.2 : Why can't I exec "reboot" ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.074736.18220@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: PC peripheral operational services group
- References: <1993Jan8.061530.22260@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:47:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.061530.22260@news.uiowa.edu> miranda@eng.uiowa.edu writes:
- > Hello Gentlemen.
- >
- >After a bit of reading today in c.o.l I decided to make sure that my system had
- >"the right stuff". So, I made sure of links, makefile ( I once got a finish
- >one by mistake!) sound support, scsi, etc... and recompiled. No problemo.
- >
- >Right after recompilation I fdformatted a floppy and typed "make disk".Swell.
- >
- >Problem is, to test this, I 'synced' about 10 times :) and then typed
- >"reboot".
- >Usual message, bounce... bounce. System halts.
- >
- >That's it. Any ideas?
- >
-
- Change the function call 'cli()' to 'sti()' in the file
- /usr/src/linux/kernel/chr_blk/keyboard.c
-
- Then recompile - then you can reboot all you want :-)
-
- A fix was posted, a couple weeks ago talking about ctrl-alt-del not
- working with .99p2 - same problem.
-
- - Bill wto@ihlpx.att.com
-