how to reboot ?

how to reboot ?

[Frederic Marmond]

Hi all,

I'm working in early stage in the Linux loading.
I'm in the linuxrc of a initrd, and I would like to reboot the machine.
Of course, as init is not started (it starts at the exit of linuxrc), 
things like shutdown, reboot, telinit 6 will not work.
So, question:
Does anybody know how I may do to reboot?

I remember that there are ways to do this in x86 (i'm working on a geode 
SetTopBox, basicaly compatible with a pentium), but I don't remember 
exactly how.
Any help would be appreciate!

Thanks in advance.

Fred

Re: how to reboot ?

[Joshua Hudson]

>From: Frederic Marmond <fmarmond@eprocess.fr>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm working in early stage in the Linux loading.
>I'm in the linuxrc of a initrd, and I would like
>to reboot the machine.
>Of course, as init is not started (it starts at the
>exit of linuxrc), things like shutdown, reboot,
>telinit 6 will not work.
Try reboot command from asmutils.
If you run it as reboot -f, the system reboots.
Don't forget to run sync first if you have mounted
any filesystems.


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