Re: software reset

[Ronald G Minnich]

On 11 Dec 2000, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Cool. How far have you gotten?
> Anything you can do in a BIOS should be possible from linux...

Working with Ollie it looks like we can move the clock around ...

> 3) Use software to simulate a machine powering up (A soft reboot)
> 
> It appears linux bios handles 1 & 2 just fine since it doesn't need
> to do anything.  Why doesn't 3 work?

I think because in linux (3) assumes there is a bios there to call. 

ron