i386/93438: Freebsd reboot by "shutdown -r now" cause damage CMOS.
Victor Blood
iam at masm.elcom.ru
Thu Feb 16 09:00:19 PST 2006
>Number: 93438
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: Freebsd reboot by "shutdown -r now" cause damage CMOS.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-i386
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 16 17:00:18 GMT 2006
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Victor Blood
>Release: FreeBSD 4.10 RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Reboot machine, using "shutdown -r" instruction cause damage CMOS. After CPU restart I have a note, that "CMOS checksum failed, defaults loaded". The Windows95, Ms-DOS and compaq Setup diskette are reboot computer normaly, without cause damege to CMOS. Then CMOS resets to defaults, setting for date/time and periphery ara stay good, but other such as: "Non-dos partition" option set are loaded from defaults.
Machine: Compaq deskpro 466 model, i486-DX2 processor,
video: S3 trio64, embedded video is disabled in bios.
>How-To-Repeat:
after rebooting by instruction: shutdown -r now
>Fix:
search, search, but can't find problem-solving...
>Release-Note:
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