[Soekris] "Lockup" update

[Ted Phelps]

Bill Maas writes:
> There still is the other issue, that of the watchdog reset during
> boot.  It happens on an OpenBSD box, maybe on Linux boxes too, if the
> timeout value is set too low. The appropriate lines from /etc/rc (4.0
> unpatched) are:

Just FYI, the Linux watchdog timer driver (for the net4801, at least --
I haven't investigated any other watchdog drivers) disables itself until
the watchdog device is opened by a user-space program.  This side-steps
the reset during boot problem.  Unfortunately it means that the watchdog
timer won't be able to help if the system hangs during boot.

Cheers,
-Ted