Re: System not rebooting on 7.1

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:41:21AM +0200, Rikard DustPuppy Johnels wrote:
> I try to issue the command "reboot" from consile..
> And it shuts down everything but stops at "rebooting the system"
> Why?

Possibly a bug in your AlphaBIOS.

> alpha-1:~ # file /sbin/reboot
> /sbin/reboot: symbolic link to halt
> 
> alpha-1:~ # file /sbin/halt
> /sbin/halt: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha (unofficial), version 1, 
> dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> 
> Ok.. So reboot calls halt.. Fine!
> But how do i get reboot to reboot?

Try to upgrade your AlphaBIOS or, if you didn't use Windows NT on that
machine, you might want to consider switching to SRM console. I had
similar problems on our PC164LX and after switching from AlphaBIOS to
SRM console, it worked perfectly sane.

Robert

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