Bug#61075: boot-floppies: Reboot does not work on bf

[<ccheney@cheney.cx>]

Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.8
Severity: important

Hello,

I am reporting this bug finally since I have (somewhat) detailed information about
it.  The potato boot-floppies do not reboot for me.  It hangs after the Restarting
System. message.  It hangs even if it is the first thing I do after booting up.
However if I go ahead and install potato then when booted of the hard drive reboot
the system it works and prints the message Rebooting. right before it goes ahead
and reboots.  If you need me to do any further tests email me or contact me in
#debian-boot.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney (calc)

-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux calc 2.2.15pre13 #1 Sat Mar 4 23:31:37 CST 2000 i686

Versions of packages boot-floppies depends on:
ii  ash                           0.3.5-10   NetBSD /bin/sh                    
ii  bison                         1:1.28-5   A parser generator that is compati
ii  debhelper                     2.0.91     helper programs for debian/rules  
ii  debiandoc-sgml                1.1.40     DebianDoc SGML DTD and formatting 
ii  dpkg-awk                      1.0.0      Gawk script to parse /var/lib/dpkg
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.6.11     Package building tools for Debian 
ii  file                          3.28-1     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  flex                          2.5.4a-6   A fast lexical analyzer generator.
ii  gcc                           1:2.95.2-7 The GNU C compiler.               
ii  gettext                       0.10.35-13 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libc6-pic [glibc-pic]         2.1.3-7    GNU C Library: PIC archive library
ii  libgd1g-dev                   1.7.3-0.1  GD Graphics Library (development v
ii  libi18n-langtags-perl         0.12-6     Perl module for dealing with RFC17
ii  libnewt-dev                   0.50-5.4   Developer's toolkit for newt windo
ii  libpaperg                     1.0.3-12.2 Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpopt-dev                   1.4-1      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libwww-perl                   5.47-1     WWW client/server library for Perl
ii  lynx                          2.8.2-6    Text-mode WWW Browser             
ii  m4                            1.4-10     a macro processing language       
ii  make                          3.78.1-7   The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  makedev                       2.3.1-40   Creates special device files in /d
ii  man-db                        2.3.15     Display the on-line manual.       
ii  perl-5.005 [perl5]            5.005.03-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting 
ii  pointerize                    0.4        Internationalization utilities, ba
ii  python-xml                    0.5.1-4    XML tools for Python              
ii  recode                        3.5-1      Character set conversion utility. 
ii  rsync                         2.4.1-1    fast remote file copy program (lik
ii  slang1-pic                    1.3.9-1    The S-Lang programming library, sh
ii  tetex-bin                     1.0.6-3    teTeX binary files                
ii  tetex-extra                   1.0-7      extra teTeX library files         
ii  zlib1g-dev                    1:1.1.3-5  compression library - development