Re: rebooting
Ian Main (imain@vcc.bc.ca)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:41:49 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Here's a problem that I have had ever since linux 1.1.59, when i started
> two years ago. When i issue a reboot commands (ie: shutdown -rt5 now)
> the mahcine unmounts the filesystems, and then says Done. it halts there
> and never reboots. It's kind of frusterating becuasei can't reboot my
> mqchine remotely, if i need to... It's a run of the mill Intel 486/100
> with 16 meg in it... it's got a WD 540, S3 video card, SB16, and Boca 28.8
> modem. I think that's it... any help is greatly appreciated.. I've asked
> around for a long time with no luck
>
Hmm.. well, I was having a problem like this with my friends machine. It
was a Cyrix 586 120 though. We managed to fiddle around in the BIOS long
enough get it to work. I can't remember which exact setting it was, but
it seems to me it was a write back cache or something.. (hmmm.. I wish I
could remember) Anyway, we fiddled long enough, and got it to work. :)
Ian