Mandrake shutdown/segmentation fault

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--- Stuart Biggerstaff <biggers at lindahall.org> wrote:
> Sorry if this has been covered.  I have a K6/2-300 system which
> (finally) 
> runs well, but on shutdown segfaults, with the message Bad EIP value. 
> I 
> have found references to this problem 
>
(http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker@linux-mandrake.com/msg45447.html)--but
> 
> none to a solution.
> 
> The problem seems to be that the operating system (here Mandrake, 8.1)
> 
> recognizes the motherboard based on its BIOS as one that will allow a 
> software shutdown--when in fact it is not. (It is an AT motherboard,
> but 
> ATX features are included in the BIOS.)  This is a guess, based on the
> fact 
> that it does it when shutdown to halt, but not rebooted. It is also 
> confirmed by others who have made the same guess. Mandrake offers a 
> possible solution, as 8.1 allows installation of either a 2.2.19 or
> 2.4.8 
> (default) kernel. One of the comments about the problem said it
> happened 
> with a 2.4.8 kernel, but not a 2.4.5 one, but as a quick test I
> installed 
> Mandrake 7.0, and it does it too.
> 
> I suspect I could fix this by editing the script it runs on shutdown,
> but 
> so far I have not found what that is.  Can anyone suggest where I
> look?

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Lonni J. Friedman                     netllama at linux-sxs.org

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