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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:46:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: sysctl interface to bootflags?
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On 8 Oct 2001, Thomas Hood wrote:

> Well, it may run, but what it changed was NOT the SBF field.
> When I restarted my machine the BIOS beeped and told me
> there was an error in the nonvolatile RAM.  I was made to
> reset the system date, and then the computer rebooted
> normally.

Ouch. Can you verify that the CMOS register its changing matches
with what's listed in the BOOT record ?
add a printk to bootflag.c to check.

regards,

Dave.

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.suse.de/~davej
| SuSE Labs

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