Eric, thanks for your help. You've set me on a path that's taught me
quite a bit.
However it still doesn't work. I've tried reboot= with all four of those
parameters and there is no difference.
First of all, linux-2.2.11 and SysVinit-2.76.
I looked at the source for /sbin/halt included with SysVinit. I call
this as /sbin/reboot -d -f -i. What it does is calls init_reboot.
Forgive me, I'm new to all this but where is init_reboot?
Anyway, from linux/sys.c, sys_reboot eventually gets called with
LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_RESTART instead of LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_RESTART2. I
verified this by changing the printk from "Restarting system" to
"Restarting this here system" and recompiling. On shutdown, I get this
cute new message and then I can hear the boards speaker beep and the
hard drive seek but then it hangs, no POST messages and no reboot.
After that printk, machine_restart in linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
gets called with (NULL) but the RESTART2 calls it with a command.
There is a function in process.c that is called reboot_setup. For the
life of me I can't find where this is called from.
Maybe this is an issue with halt.c in SysVinit-2.76?
I'm not sure if this is offtopic or not for this list. I only have this
problem with the Ampro Littleboard though so maybe not.
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Seppanen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 1:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Rebooting Linux
> The parameters should be:
> reboot=w (warm boot)
> reboot=c (cold boot)
> reboot=b (bios reboot)
> reboot=h (hard reboot [try to toggle reset or crash CPU])
>
grrr. OK, I'm stupid. after looking at the code again, the parameter
syntax should be:
reboot=[w|c][b|h]
The code in fact looks at all the letters. Warm and cold are mutually
exclusive as are bios and hard.
Or you can just read the code in process.c, reboot_setup().
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