MrMad Posted May 21, 2005 Report Share Posted May 21, 2005 (edited) Simple question so I suppose the answer can be as short as the question. Is it normal that when Linux doing reset of the system (Init 6) it's always hard reset ? (by hard reset I mean that the BIOS is starting memory check & drives etc. - no quick start) Edited May 21, 2005 by MrMad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 24, 2005 Report Share Posted May 24, 2005 (edited) Hmmmm...I've never had this problem. What BIOS is it? Is it possible that you have somehow turned off the quickboot option? How old is your cmos battery, etc? Some BIOSes have an option called 'Reset BIOS configuration' which actually does not do what you would expect. You would think it means to reset it all back to factory defaults, but it actually means that is the only way to get it to accept anything besides the factory defaults. I ran into that little 'gotcha' when I was doing computer service with my brother. Edited May 24, 2005 by Steve Scrimpshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMad Posted July 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2005 Ok here are details about the BIOS and MB. Motherboard ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe BIOS AWARD v6.00PG ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe ACPI BIOS REV 1013 Any clues ? (I tried already reset BIOS - both by soft and hard way - no change). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMad Posted September 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 Solved thanks to german forum I found usefull kernel options for lilo regarding rebooting. In my case adding the warm option solved the problem... No more memory count !!! Rebooting reboot=b[ios] | t[riple] | k[bd] [, [w]arm | [c]old] bios Use the CPU reboto vector for warm reset warm Don't set the cold reboot flag cold Set the cold reboot flag triple Force a triple fault (init) kbd Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default) Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big memory systems because the BIOS will not go through the memory check. Disadvantage is that not all hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so there may be boot problems on some systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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