From: mfrankow@hamline.edu. (Michael Frankowski) Subject: Re: Problems with CMOS after using Linux on my 486 Date: 14 Nov 1992 21:52:17 GMT
In article <1992Nov12.230055.28527@sfu.ca> rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:
>Anyway, on my system, CAD/reboot works only about 30% of the time.
>It hangs the machine the other 70%. On a couple of friends' systems,
>it wipes the CMOS. Now they shut down linux by just doing a couple of
>syncs turning off the power.
>
>I am told that this behavior happens only with AMI bios. Don't know
>why. Is there any chance there will ever be a fix for this? Linux
>has had this 'bug' (if you can call it that) since the CAD code was
>introduced.
>Can anyone out there who knows anything about this comment?
My comment on this is that it works 100% of the time for me.
I use reboot/shutdown each day at least once (more if I am working on X).
I have an AMI BIOS. Maybe it has something to do with bios settings? I don't
know much about the internals of a intel-based machine, I just love unix
and pray that I don't start to get these problems.
>- Ken
Mike