Re: Flavours of rebooting (was 3C509 acting strangely on Win95/Debian ...)
It belongs on the LILO command line that boots the linux kernel (given
that you boot with LILO). It's interpreted by the _kernel_, not any
user-mode program, at boot time, and it saves that parameter until halt
time. You can also hack the kernel to hard-code the booting method.
Another solution would be an /etc/init.d script that saves the motor
positions when halting, and restores them while booting. Of course,
this is not as nice as having the hardware remember. You might have to
re-calibrate at boot time just to make sure the stored positions are
right.
Thanks
Bruce
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"surplus".
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