Re: Trouble rebooting Tyan Thunder K7 (S2462UNG)

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Fri, 2002-04-19 23:15:23 -0000, Jordan Breeding <jordan.breeding@attbi.c=
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>   I am having trouble getting a brand new Tyan Thunder K7 S2462UNG (the
> one with onboard SCSI) to reboot successfully using Linux.  This board

> FreeBSD do with this board, instead the text stays there for at least
> 15-20 seconds (maybe longer) then when it finally blanks the video and
> the monitor light begins to flash it goes straight into the Adaptec
> SCSISelect scan (I can tell because my HD light comes on and the CDROMs

What is so uncommon? The board does use ECC RAM, so maybe the board's
BIOS / firmware needs this time to blank and check all the RAM. Maybe
othe OSes don't initiate a full "cold boot" but something that doesn't
make the board to re-initialize all the RAM...

MfG, JBG

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