Sorry for the delay,
it was indeed MILO which was hanging around. It had not started to boot
the kernel.
May be there are some boards which have some problems in this area
(including mine :| )
Are there some guys from Compaq/Digital around here who can tell us
something to this phenomenon on PC164 boards (would be nice) ?
Greets,
Juergen
Richard Henderson wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 11:19:31AM -0500, Rich Payne wrote:
> > > But there is sometimes an exception in the behaviour where CTRL-ALT-DEL
> > > succeeds to reboot the machine, but then milo hangs on startup. Then i
> > > still have to reset the box.
> >
> > MILO hangs on the reboot? or the kernel hangs on Calibrating the Delay
> > Loop?
>
> It's the same loop -- MILO also calculates bogos. Unsurprisingly,
> for use in the same delay loop that the kernel uses.
>
> The problem is that the hardware clock has stopped ticking, so no
> interrupts are ever delivered. Nor, if you took the effort to do
> so, is the update-in-progress bit ever twiddling. The clock is
> really and truely stopped.
>
> I do not know why this happens, but I've seen it on two machines.
>
> r~
--
################### ################### Juergen Bierlein
################### ################# IT-PSS / Server Management
################### ############### - System Manager
################### ############# Phone: +49 (6227) 7 46986
################### ########### Fax : +49 (6227) 7 56986
## ### ### ## ######### EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# ###### ## ## # ####### SAP AG Walldorf
# ## # ## ## ##### Neurottstrasse 16
##### # # ##### ### D-69190 Walldorf
# ## ### # ##### # http://www.sap.com/
The sun shines on my way, every night and every day. :-)
