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- From: kkress@phent.UUCP (Kenneth R. Kress)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
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- Subject: Re: v4.0 reboot command
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- Organization: That's Entertainment BBS
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 23:33:18 EST
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- Joseph Perry (jep@baugo.miles.com) wrote:
- > Olaf Matthaei (root@kwcom.in-berlin.de) wrote:
- > : Jim Hodges (jim@pisaro.enet.dec.com) wrote:
- > : :
- > : : I've noticed that the reboot command doesn't appear to work. After
- > : : issuing the shutdown
- > : : and sync commands, I issue the command reboot, and my system just sits
- > : : there...
- > : :
- > : : Is this a "feature"(known/reported problem) ? Anyone else have a
- > : : similar experience
- > : : with this command?
- > : :
- > :
- > : I think, this is an hardware problem by issue motherboard or keyboard.
- > : So I never heard about this.
- > :
- > : shutdown, sync, reboot works fine.
- >
- > With Coherent 3.2 `reboot' worked like it should on my computer. With
- > Coherent 4.0.1a, `reboot' only displays a message that I should press
- > the reset button, it doesn't actually reboot the machine.
- >
- > BTW my computer is a Gateway 2000 386/33 MHz with a Micronics model 80386
- > ASIC cache system motherboard with a Phoenix ASIC 1.10 M11 BIOS.
-
- Ditto for me. I have a Gateway 2000 486/33mHz. It worked under 3.x.x and stops
- under 4.x.xrx.
- Ken.
-