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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!ichaos!jlaiho
- From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
- Subject: Re: Problems with CMOS after using Linux on my 486
- Organization: NullNet r.y.
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 17:08:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bxpu9D.5Cp@ichaos.nullnet.fi>
- References: <96973@netnews.upenn.edu> <BxIyzz.38z@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Nov12.230055.28527@sfu.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov12.230055.28527@sfu.ca> rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:
- >In article <BxIyzz.38z@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> pcrichar@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Pat Richard) writes:
- >>In article <96973@netnews.upenn.edu> dsimon@stipple.seas.upenn.edu (Derron Simon) writes:
- >>>My problem is that after loading Linux from the latest SLS disks (.98pl1, I
- >>>ftp'ed them 3 days ago) I get "CMOS checksum bad" errors after every reboot.
- >>>Usually the portion of CMOS that gets trashed is the Hard Drive information!
- >>
- >>Yes, I have also had this problem running SLS .98 pl1, though I somehow
- >>feel it wasn't to do with SLS (?). When I used mtools, and then re-booted,
- >>the hard disk info was lost. It was my first time using mtools, and
- >[...]
- >
- >Anyway, on my system, CAD/reboot works only about 30% of the time.
- >It hangs the machine the other 70%. On a couple of friends' systems,
- >it wipes the CMOS. Now they shut down linux by just doing a couple of
- >syncs turning off the power.
- >
- >I am told that this behavior happens only with AMI bios. Don't know
- >why. Is there any chance there will ever be a fix for this? Linux
- >has had this 'bug' (if you can call it that) since the CAD code was
- >introduced.
- >
- I have a similar problem with 386sx/16, Phoenix BIOS.
- From time to time, rebooting gives me the message 'CMOS checksum failure'.
- No CMOS info seems to be trashed, though.
-
- ..Wolf
-