Re: Not rebooting.

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 12 Jan 1998 09:41:50 +0100


Hi!

> Specifying 'reboot=bios' does work however, which leads me to a question:
>
> If the default method of rebooting without the BIOS (using keyboard/triple
> fault) doesn't work, why does the current code sit in an infinite loop when
> it would be just as easy to attempt that a certain number of times and then
> attempt the BIOS instead?

Because triplefaulting means crashing processor. And you can not do
anything after you crashed you CPU. And changing methods will not
work, IMO: BIOS simply will not reboot, and it may not even return control.

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