Subject: Re: unsuccessful reboot
To: None <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>
From: C Kane <ckane@best.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/19/1998 15:30:47
C Kane wrote:
> I have some IBM Intellistation Z-Pro systems with dual Pentium Pro processors.
> 
> Under NetBSD-1.3.1 and NetBSD-1.3.2, the reboot command works as expected.
> 
> Under NetBSD-current, after the disks are sync()'ed and probably when the
> BIOS regains control, the system beeps:  beep, pause, beep, beep, beep, pause, beep,
> and then hangs hard.
[...]
> Has anyone else seen any problem similar to this?

Guenther Grau wrote:
> No, I haven't but did you take a look into the manual that came with the
> machine? They have a list that explain, what the beep codes mean. It might
> help to find the bug if we knew what the system complains about.

The beep code means:  1st 64 K RAM test failure

Swapping the two 128M DIMMs doesn't affect the occurance of this error, and, of
course, a reboot works fine under 1.3.1 and 1.3.2.

-- Chuck