On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:15:26PM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: > same thing happens on my miata. i believe you have to pass some sort of > return structure to srm, or it may be that linux breaks some of srm's > assumptions. netbsd works, in fact netbsd does warm srm reboots (much faster > than rebooting the whole machine), which would be a nice feature. though, i > don't think there's a way for linux to have both. it's either return to srm > which reruns aboot, or reboot srm as well. >
Also aboot works correctly. If you boot with '-flags i' and issued a 'q' command to stop and return to SRM, it works good. I'll check if aboot uses a more nice approach to halting the box... > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:01:34PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > Patching arch/alpha/sys_alcor.c in 2.2.19 works. > > The problems is that it stops but do not return to SRM prompt. > > Instead a message > > > > *** Console stopped because of Machine Check *** > > *** Pressa HALT Button to return to console *** > > > > is issued. Obviosly I have not any halt key... > > Maybe a different value is required instead of 0x0000dead in that file? > > -- > Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > DSA Key id 0x27371A2C > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Francesco P. Lovergine
