Re: RH6 kernel shutdown problem AMD K6-2

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:59:05 +0100 (BST)

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> I've got two identical machines with an AMD K6-2 350 Mhz on a Tyan VIA
> Apollo motherboard. Whenever I go to shutdown RH 6.0 w/ kernel 2.2.5-15
> or 2.2.5-22, the kernel dumps right before it is supposed to display
> the "Power Down" text.
>
> Anyone else get this?

Quite a few people. If the number in the EIP of the dump is [0050:somevalue]
it is your BIOS that has a bug.

Alan

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