Re: software reset

[James Stevenson <james@stev.org>]

Hi

1 way to get a garentee reboot is to use a 2nd computer a parrell port
and a resistor + relay and get the relay to short the reset pins
on the MB of the machine you wish to reboot.

You could set this up to reboot up 2 8 machine usign cheap hardware
like a 486 or something.

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 15:37, joe briggs wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to absolutely force a reset on a i386?  Specifically, 
> is there a system call that will call the assembly instruction to assert the 
> RESET bus line? I try to use the "reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_RESTART,0,0,NULL)" 
> call, but it will not always work.  Occassionally, I experience a "missed 
> interrupt" on a Promise IDE controller, and while I can telnet into the 
> system, I can't reset it.  Any help greatly appreciated!  Since these systems 
> are 1000's of miles away, the need to remotely reset it paramont.
> 
> 
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