SC520 and reboot

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <E1AVGZP-000CgE-7e at cs.huji.ac.il>, Danny Braniss writes:
>> In message <20031213113122.T65254 at carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White writes:
>> >On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Danny Braniss wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >> 	this Elan based board is now running 5.2-CURRENT, but typing
>> >> reboot, causes the machine to stop, the leds to go off, and after power
>> >> cycle, the bios setup is cleared!
>> >
>> >How useful. Is this a Soekris system?
>> 
>> Wild guess:  adjkerntz -a ?
>
>I fail to see the connection, though when the bios is clean up, the time goes back to January 6, 1980 :-)

If you run adjkerntz -a it fiddles the CMOS RTC clock and possibly the
"century" byte I think.  If your BIOS uses a checksum on the RTC and
adjkerntz doesn't know about it, your BIOS will think the contents is
trashed.

Try booting to single user and shut down immediately, does it still
happen then ?

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