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- From: harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp)
- Subject: Ctrl-Alt-Del & reboot/halt weirdness
- Message-ID: <phrn4dk.harp@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 10:18:36 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- I've been having a consistent problem with Ctrl-Alt-Del and/or
- using the reboot/halt programs.
-
- My hardware configuration is: 486DX @ 50Mhz, 8MB RAM, Micronics
- motherboard with their chipset (MCM2), and Phoenix 486 ROM BIOS PLUS
- verson 0.10 G19-2. My video card is a Diamond (BOOO!) Stealth VRAM.
- I use about a 8920K swap partition (what I had left on the drive after
- creating the root and usr partitions). I'm currently running 0.97pl4,
- but I've had this problem since 0.97 first came out, which is the
- first Linux I installed. [Hey, I just got started recently, ok? ;) ]
-
- Oh, I use BootLin to go into Linux. I'm not anxious to go fiddling
- with my MBR, since I need this machine for business.
-
- Anyway, whenever I do a shutdown or reboot, I get a lockup
- instead. The following is the output I get when I use these
- commands (I added the indention):
-
- URGENT: message from the sysadmin:
- System going down IMMEDIATELY!
-
- in:
- ... ...
-
- down IMMEDIATELY!
-
- in:
-
- No, you're not seeing things. That's it. Happens every time. Then,
- in the case of reboot, things lock up. I sometimes even get trash on
- the screen. In the case of halt, it eventually tells me I can shut
- down, then it locks. I always have to do a hard reset whenever I
- leave Linux (unless, of course, I just turn the machine off).
-
- I thought at first it might be a bug. Then I though it was my
- installation. Well, I switched to the MCC-Interim a few days ago (on
- a fresh, clean HD) and have since then applied patches 3 and 4 and
- recompiled. No change.
-
- I started experimenting with my CMOS setup when I saw another person
- here who had fixed their C-A-D problem that way. I've found that
- turning off BIOS shadowing made a difference in the rebooting -- now
- that part works without a lockup. However, I still get the garbled
- shutdown message.
-
- Well, turning off BIOS shadowing isn't a good solution for me. While
- Linux doesn't use it, I still have to use DOS/Windows occasionally on
- this machine. In fact, I will probably be using this machine for my
- next contract, and the performance hit I take under DOS for not having
- the BIOS shadowed is large. Turning BIOS shadowing on/off every time
- I switch OSes isn't such a hot idea, either...
-
- BTW, playing with the bus I/O speed had no effect on the problem.
- There was no "Fast A20 Gate" feature like the previous poster had
- mentioned in my setup...
-
- Any other ideas on how to solve these problems?
- --
- -----------------Greg-Harp----------------harp@netcom.com------------------
- Love me, love my ferrets. "Break out of the mold before
- Or at least love my ferrets. ;) the mold sets in" -- B52's
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