On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, Chris Csanady wrote:

> on my machine, i am unable to do a reboot/halt
> most of the time, and am repeatedly forced to hit the reset switch.

If it's because a message is scrolling up your screen (the same message 
on each line) including the words "VBLK" and "dirty", boot the machine 
into single-user mode and then run "fsck -f /dev/{s,w}d0a".  If that's 
not it, then perhaps more details of what exactly is happening would be 
helpful...

> [...] except he has a 586 [...]
                        ^^^
Hmm?  You mean a Pentium? :-)

--scott