Subject: Re: shutdown -r
To: Erik Bertelsen <erik@sockdev.uni-c.dk>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/07/1997 12:36:10
Erik Bertelsen wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> .. xiamin wrote:
> .. 
> .. > This has been happening for a while now, but I've just gotten around to 
> .. > writting about it.
> .. > On my Q650, running MADHATTER #40, whenever I shutdown -r, instead of 
> .. > coming up with the normal grey screen after shutting down, the screen 
> .. > remains black. Then it plays a little song. I think the song is maybe six 
> .. > notes long,is this the chimes of doom?
> 
> On my Quadra 610, shutdown -r works, i.e. it shutdowns the machine
> completely, and then restarts it.

Cool...

> On my Mac IIcx, shutdown -r consistently shutdowns and leaves the machine
> with a blank screen (but no sounds) -- I have to power cycle the machine.

Not so cool.  Is anyone else having this problem on a IIcx?  This sounds
vaguely familiar to me, BTW.  I seem to remember someone else having
trouble rebooting a IIcx (although my IIci works just fine).

> This has happened consistently for at least a year while tracking
> -current.

Have you sent in a PR yet???

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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