Talk:Soft reboot
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David Bradley should be included in the article and removed from "see also" section
[edit] Operating system specific code of dubious worth
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- On these PC's soft rebooting should be done in the following way: (Real Mode)
- 1. Write 1234h to absolute memory location 472h (This will inform the BIOS to do a soft reboot)
- 2. Make a long jump to ffffh (like so in AT&T syntax: ljmp $0xffff,$0x0000 )
Is it really appropriate to include code on how to soft reboot every different operating system in existence? That will make the article quite long. Furthermore note that if we limit ourselves to just "major" operating systems, that nowadays excludes those where the above code will actually work. -- 81.138.100.115 18:17, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Could be interesting to know how it works, perchance, to see one specific implementation of a soft reset. It's not so much OS-specific as it is architecture-specific, IMO. --DolphinCompSci 20 Dec 05
