> Actually, this might have something to do with the BIOS on some PCI 
> motherboards.  I hve an SP3G (with an AMD processor) which not only won't 
> reboot from NetBSD, but won't reboot from Novell DOS or OS/2, either.  I 
> don't know why.  I've also heard people complain about this with some of 
> the newer DEC PCI machines.  FWIW, the SP3G uses the Award BIOS; I don't 
> know about the Vectra or the DEC machines.

That's ironic really. An older Award bios on a VLB/ISA board of mine has
this problem, but the SP3G I just bought to replace it does NOT have the
problem.
It's probably due to a combination of the BIOS rev and possibly some of
the support chips (although I doubt the latter.)

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> Thor Lancelot Simon                                       tls@cloud9.net


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