On halt, there is some kind of an error after 'stopping md devices' (on power down?) which causes a fatal exception error (and loads of shite to spew over the screen). We are using : AMD k6-2 450 on a SOYO 5EMA+ mobo, 128 Mb SDRAM, 4Mb Trident AGP 9750 graphics card. 'reboot' seems to work fine, no other problems at all either. I can send you the details of all the error codes etc spewed over the screen if you like as well.
Sorry - I got the error wrong! It's a general protection fault, not a fatal excetpion error. What happens is: The system is halted. Stopping all md devices. Power down general protection fault: f000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0050:[<00008875>] EFLAGS: 00010046 followd by loads of junk.
That's in the APM bios. Try the patch that I'll be sending in a minute.
Sorry, I didn't receive a patch?
Go to the bugzilla page for this bug and click on the 'Bug #4349 email' link.
Is this fixed in the 2.2.12 patch, or do I need a special patch?
No, you'd still need a separate patch to switch it to real mode before powering off.
I hate to seem ignorant, but where does this patch go, and how do I make it happen?