Re: Compaq Presario "reboot" problems

Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-17T19:05:19Z

Verified. I saw this problem a few weeks back and I am running Windows
2000 and 2003 on separate systems now. Windows 2000
is such a pig it needs its own system in any event.

Jeff

linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:

>With Linux-2.4.26 I reported that if a Compaq gets rebooted while
>running Linux-2.4.26, it will not be able to restart Windows 2000.
>It cam restart Linux fine. Today, I tried the same thing with
>Linux-2.6.13.4. It fails, too.
>
>The symptoms are that you just "reboot" Linux. When the GRUB loader
>comes up, I select my Windows-2000/professional. That M$ Crap comes
>up to where it's just about to start the high-resolution screen.
>Then it stops forever, no interrupts, no nothing. I need to disconnect
>power and remove the battery to recover.
>
>It appears as though Linux is still restarting as a "warm boot",
>rather than a cold boot (in other words, putting magic in the
>shutdown byte of CMOS) so the hardware doesn't get properly
>initialized. Would somebody please check this out. When changing
>operating systems, you need a cold-boot.
>
>Cheers,
>Dick Johnson
>Penguin : Linux version 2.6.13.4 on an i686 machine (5589.44 BogoMips).
>Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
>.
>
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