I believe I've already replied to this; it does indeed appear to be a
BIOS bug. The 'reboot' loader command simply re-invokes the bootstrap
interrupt, it doesn't attempt a complete system restart. It seems that
some BIOSsen don't deal with this very well.
> this may be a BIOS/Mainboard issu
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 11:27:41PM +0100, Bjoern Fischer wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 08:47:03PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> [...]
> > > When I reboot the system from the /boot/loader
> > > command line (with `reboot'), the system is
> > > being resetted, the kernel loads and starts,
> > > and
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 08:47:03PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
[...]
> > When I reboot the system from the /boot/loader
> > command line (with `reboot'), the system is
> > being resetted, the kernel loads and starts,
> > and when the FPU is being initialized the kernel
> > traps.
[...]
> Works fine
