Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Armen Babikyan wrote:
> 
> > >I am using a FAQ that is called Creating a Custom Kernel so that I can
> > >create a Kernel that will allow me to restart my machine and have it go
> > >directly go in to BSD and not have to go into MacOS (right now when I
> > >tell my IIcx to restart it hangs and doesn't restart untill I power it
> > >off manually.  Any help???
> > 
> > my IIcx restarts fine with the GENERICSBC#55 kernel, which is running the
> > NetBSD_1.3_BETA snapshot (no time to upgrade - if it ain't broke, don't fix
> > it).  It restarts fine, no manual rebooting needed (using either "shutdown
> > -r now" or "reboot"). I don't see why it's not working in your case...I
> > assume you have an even later version of both the kernel and snapshot.
> > Does anyone else know if these "bugs" keep reappearing between snapshots?
> 
> To restart properly requires HW_DIRECT. Inspect the output of "dmesg." If
> your kernel was compiled with MRG_ADB, you will see that in the adb0
> probe. All you should have to do is comment out "options MRG_ADB" in the
> config. IIRC, that isn't done in all the distributions, because HW_DIRECT
> is newer, and hasn't worked on every machine.

This is incorrect.  There are some machines which I believe require Power
Manager support to power off or restart, and the Cuda-based machines also
require this, but the older II-series machines (the ones which most often
see the reboot hang problem) will reboot just fine under MRG_ADB as long
as the kernel memory mappings don't tickle this bug.  Scott's recent patch
should clear up this problem for original II-series machines (i.e. the II,
IIx, IIcx, and SE/30).  I believe that this functionality was added to
-current, but I may have missed the commit message for it, so I'm not sure
:-(

Later.

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