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From: Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: "shutdown -r now" (lilo, win98) (fwd)
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:15:07PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Some windows driver is assuming things that the BIOS has not cleared up
> on reset and whichit probably shouldn't. Its not uncommon to have to 
> powercycle a box between OS's. Sometimes you see it with windows hanging
> sometimes with Linux

I thought that Linux forced a cold-restart upon a reboot to solve this very
issue.  At least wrt the BIOS.

Perhaps a physical component needs that power cycle to do a reset?

mrc
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