Re: reboot problem

Alexandre Maret (amaret@infomaniak.ch)
Thu, 12 Sep 1996 23:46:59 +0200

Richard Guenther wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Alexandre Maret wrote:
>
> > Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm using Linux on a 486/66 with a Cyrix-CPU.
> > >
> > > After installing a new version of my distribution (DLD) with Kernel v2.0
> > > I got a problem with 'reboot'. Shutdown works fine (terminate, sync, ...),
> > > but then the screen darkens and I' ve to push the reset-button to get
> > > the computer back to work.

> I have this problems too on one of my two pentium machines.
> They have exactly (mostly) the same software-configuration, differing only in
> motherboard (one is an ASUS P24XE, with no problems, the other is an ASUS
> P24N which causes (probably) the problems). Perhaps this might be a BIOS
> problem? (the P24XE has 1.13, the P24N has 2.01, both are PNP-Versions)
>
> hope this helps to track down the bug.

Could you just tell us if you also load linux with loadlin,
and if it is the case, try to load it with lilo to test if
it behaves the same.

thanks

alex

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