patriot wrote:
> I am currently having a problem with rebooting and then the machine is 
> hanging.  I reboot by putting the command "shutdown -r now" and the 
> machine syncs the disks and tries to reboot but all I get is a blank 
> screen and nothing more.  My only option is to turn the power off, wait a 
> few seconds and then power it back up into the MacOS.  I want to be able 
> to administer my machine from a remote location and if I need to update 
> it then I need to be able to do that remotely.  I finally found the 
> kernel source and was told that all I need to do is possibly remove some 
> drivers and it should work.  
> 
> Anyone with any ideas that might help?

This is/was a rather long-standing problem with NetBSD on older II-series
computers that resulted from the way we mapped the ROM's in kernel memory
(at least that's how it was explained to me :-).  Scott Reynolds committed
the fix for this to -current within the last few weeks.  I back-ported his
patch to 1.3.  If you want a copy, let me know and I'll mail it to you.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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