In article <1992Aug15.015736.2417@werple.pub.uu.oz.au> andrew@werple.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Herbert) writes:
>STDN%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Dan Newcombe) writes:
>>3) Rebooting: My system refuses to reboot without me hitting the
>> RESET switch on the unit.
>Same with my Micronics 486/33-EISA motherboard. The kernel code for rebooting
>appears to implicitly force a reboot (at least, for most people :-) by walking
>over processor tables, rather than being direct and getting the keyboard
>controller to do it (the way my UNIX SVR4 does it). Once I get the hang of
>what to tell this controller, I'll try to fix it!
I'm having the same problem with my 386SX 16Mhz/8MB (Morse board) 386BSD
system.
When the system does a reboot after e.g. a power fail or someone hit the Reset
key so that a fsck has to be performed with a subsequent warm boot then
the system hangs. This is extremely unpleasant because I then always have to drive from home to the University Campus just to press the reset button once
more. Bill Jolitz sent once sent me a comment on this but I lost
that mail.
Is this a kernel bug? Does it depend on the size of the kernel ? Is there a fix?
Now something totally off topic: I'm relatively new to USENET and I often see
followup articles which are neatly formatted, indented with > or >>, containing
a line like "In article <1992Aug15.015736.2417@werple.pub.uu.oz.au> someone writes:".
I'm using dxrn (DecWindows xrn on a DS3100) and it takes me a hell lot of time
to e.g. prepare this article, write the indentation marks, cut the Message-ID
(is this really the correct field to uniquely identify a message?) and paste
