Re: Compaq Presario "reboot" problems

[Ondrej Zary]

linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> It appears as though Linux is still restarting as a "warm boot",
> rather than a cold boot (in other words, putting magic in the
> shutdown byte of CMOS) so the hardware doesn't get properly
> initialized. Would somebody please check this out. When changing
> operating systems, you need a cold-boot.
No, it does not. I know that my desktop PC reboots with a beep (and 
shows CPU information) from Linux - and it does not beep when rebooting 
from Windows 98.
Some BIOSes don't like when some devices are in some state. One example 
is my DTK FortisPro TOP-5A notebook - when rebooted from Linux, it hangs 
during POST - the fix was to add setpci <someting> to shutdown scripts 
to zero-out some cardbus controller registers.

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Ondrej Zary
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