"Ian S. Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This may sound like a stupid question but I can't make my BIOS free
> linux bios reboot. It jumps in to the weeds and wedges when I issue a
> reboot. From my earlier experiences with this stuff it seemed like it
> should be a breeze to write some bad code that would cause a triple
> fault, only I can't seem to get it right. Any one have some tips on
> good triple faulting code?
I have gotten this working on my dual athlon system so I have some
clue.
Tripple faulting the cpu doesn't cause the processor to reboot. It
causes the processor to go into a halt mode. So to get a reboot
working you need to properly setup one of the other chips in your
system, probably the southbridge. So that it when it sees that the
processor has triple faulted it will send the processor an INIT or a
RESET signal.
I assume you want to just get the processor back into linuxBIOS and
not, cause a full reboot of your system.
Eric
