Re: Why halt does reboot?

[Tom Vier <tmv5@home.com>]

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.

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?  

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