On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Joseph Stegner wrote: > Here's the problem I had with 8.2, for those who don't remember: > > For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not the betas/RC's, the > 8.2 release version) or 8.2's installer after my mouse initializes and > the BIOS tries to initialize communication with the hard drives, it will > hang - the busy led tells me something is going on, but nothing happens. > After waiting for a minute or so, I'll get either "Bad CMOS checksum, > default used" or "Error System Clock" or something of that nature. > Sometimes it'll reset all the changes I made in BIOS. With Win2k and > Mandrake 8.1, nothing of that sort happens.
It seems there should only be a couple places where Linux would interact with the PC BIOS that could possibly cause a problem: 1) /dev/nvram is enabled and something is doing something weird. But this would be highly unlikely. 2) /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt (called during shutdown) is causing a problem when it syncs the hardware clock. If this is the case you can try disabling the sync by commenting out the line and then doing a test reboot.
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