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- From: mullens@jamsun.ic.ornl.gov (James A. Mullens)
- Subject: Re: Problems with CMOS after using Linux on my 486
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.173325.20965@ornl.gov>
- Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
- Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- References: <96973@netnews.upenn.edu> <BxIyzz.38z@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Nov12.230055.28527@sfu.ca> <BxntpL.Hp2@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:33:25 GMT
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- In article <BxntpL.Hp2@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov12.230055.28527@sfu.ca> rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:
- |> >Anyway, on my system, CAD/reboot works only about 30% of the time.
- |> >It hangs the machine the other 70%. On a couple of friends' systems,
- |> >it wipes the CMOS. Now they shut down linux by just doing a couple of
- |> >syncs turning off the power.
- |> >
- |> >I am told that this behavior happens only with AMI bios. Don't know
- |> >why. Is there any chance there will ever be a fix for this? Linux
- |> >has had this 'bug' (if you can call it that) since the CAD code was
- |> >introduced.
- |>
- |> All I know is that I have the AMI bios, and I have this problem.
- |> I do get my CMOS wiped on occasion (although this has not happened lately),
- |> and the reboot command does only work about 50% of the time for me, or so it
- |> seems, I have not looked into this at all.
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- Reboot doesn't work on my machine. It writes into my video RAM rather
- nicely though. SLS (patches to 921023); Gateway 2000 486/33, Micronics
- Gemini II Rev F1, Phoenix BIOS, SpeedStar Plus VGA, 1 IDE (200Mb) drive,
- 5.25 & 3.5 floppy, cartridge tape (floppy interface), ThunderBoard,
- 12 Mb, DOS 5.0 primary active partition, 3 Linux partitions (root, swap,
- user); linux boots from floppy.
-
- Shutdown works but the messages include/are garbage character strings.
-
- jim mullens
- Internet: jcm@ornl.gov (128.219.128.17)
- mullens@jamsun.ic.ornl.gov (128.219.64.31)
- My contribution to the chatter fest:
- Dear Ms Dos: Our relationship is OVER. I've found Linux.
-