Re: Gateway 9100 laptop randomly reboots between bootsect.S and entry.S

Pavel Machek (pavel@elf.ucw.cz)
Thu, 23 Apr 1998 22:30:53 +0200


> Hi,
>
> I have a Gateway 9100 laptop which is happily running linux except
> for one problem. About 5 times out of 6 when it reboots and lilo goes to
> start linux I get a spontaneous reboot after the:

Try disabling L1 cache in bios.

Then try disabling L2 cache in bios.

Then try looking at settings about a20 line.

Try booting it with grub, loadlin, ... etc.

You might want to introduce huge fields of nops to flush caches in
case hw does not do that on hw toggle.

Pavel

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