Re: Why halt does reboot?
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?
>
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