Re: reboot via bios on X86_64?

[Miles Fidelman]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> The default behaviour is now to use the ACPI reboot vector, and the
> behaviour was tweaked somewhat to make it work better with a variety of
> machines. If 3.3 doesn't work then we've got a problem, but I could
> absolutely believe that 2.6.32 would fail to work.
Interesting.  The comments still indicate that kbd is the default vector.

In any case:
- just booted with a gentoo liveCD (3.3.0 kernel)
- tried the default reboot - hangs (last console message: "Remounting / 
read only ..")
- tried with reboot=a - hangs (same last console message)

For what it's worth, creating a path for X86_64 mode to reboot through 
the bios seems like
a good thing to put on the wish list.






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In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra


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