According to Bart Silverstrim: > Warm boots basically just cycle the computer to restart the OS. It's > just restarting it, and power to the components has been maintained the > whole time so as far as the computer hardware is concerned nothing > really happened, just a chunk of memory access and the processor mode > getting kicked around a bit.
It's been a long time, but it seems to me the byte at absolute address 0x412 (labelled MFG_TST in the old ibm bios listing) determines whether the bios does a full POST or not. If that value is nulled out before the reboot, I think it will do a full POST. Rich _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
