Subject: Re: How might one patch the OS to automagically reboot during hw/sw except
Keywords: exception reboot macsbug kiosk how
Message-ID: <1993Jan03.034035.21486@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 93 03:40:35 GMT
References: <drutman.725933707@sol.UVic.CA>
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <drutman.725933707@sol.UVic.CA> drutman@sol.UVic.CA (D. Rutman) writes:
>I have a MMind director presentation using a dvi card that sometimes fails. I would like to ensure that the mac will reboot automatically in the event of any
>software or hardware exception. The mac is in an unattended kiosk so if it crashes, no one will fix it. So until I pin down whether the cause, I'd like to cylce the cpu and satrat from scratch. Any suggestions?
Patch 'SysError' to always do a restart. Though I'm not sure that
will get all of them-- you may have to mess with the 68000 exception
vectors as well.
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Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu
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