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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2090 ; Thu, 25 Feb 93 10:11:21 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Reboot fails on Compaq Date: 23 Feb 1993 08:52:44 -0600 Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX Lines: 34 Message-ID: <1mddnsINN8dq@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <1993Feb24.121954.177166@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <1993Feb24.121954.177166@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de> zh@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de writes: >I have an old Compaq Deskpro 386/20 here, and finally managed to get 386BSD >up and running on that system. > >Unfortunately, rebooting the system shuts down properly but after the screen >goes blank only two beeps are heard and the system halts completely. Lacking >a reset button, one has to "reboot" by using the big switch. > >Anyone else encountered this problem and found a solution ? > >Thanks for any hints in advance. > Not this problem precisely, but the 'BIG RESET' switch is the only way that I can get my system to "warm" boot. Neither my network card, nor my hard disk controller clear themselves on a warm boot, so I have to power cycle. There was a patch put out on the net a while ago, and one of these days I might even try it... If you want the patch, E-Mail me. No sweat though, the only time I ever have to turn the machine off is to try out a new kernel, and I don't do THAT very often. My system has actually crashed once now in the past four months... Actually this crash was unexpected. I was 'compress -d'ing a directory full of *.Z file (for the Pascal compiler) and the system announced 'kmem map too small'. It doesn't really suprise me, since I am running with 32M of RAM, and have been since day 1 (Yes, even before the patch kit) :-) -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX