On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:15:07PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Some windows driver is assuming things that the BIOS has not cleared up
> on reset and whichit probably shouldn't. Its not uncommon to have to
> powercycle a box between OS's. Sometimes you see it with windows hanging
> sometimes with Linux
I thought that Linux forced a cold-restart upon a reboot to solve this very
issue. At least wrt the BIOS.
Perhaps a physical component needs that power cycle to do a reset?
mrc
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