Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:10:54 -0400 From: Christopher McGee <chris@xecu.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reboot hangs on xeon server Message-ID: <443D0A6E.8020402@xecu.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.53.0604111708060.3684@bender> References: <443C08F3.90701@xecu.net> <Pine.SOL.4.53.0604111708060.3684@bender>
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Andy Reitz wrote: >On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Christopher McGee wrote: > > > >>The server I have is using an Intel SE7501CW2 server board with 1 Xeon >>2.0Ghz processor. It's got a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 card with 6 - 36GB >>scsi drives. When I reboot the machine, via ctrl-alt-del, or typing >>reboot, it syncs disks, then gives the messages: >> >>All buffers synced. >>Uptime: ##m##s >> >>At this point, it just hangs forever and has to be powercycled. I've >>tried installing 4.11, 5.4 and 6.0 on this box. The only version that >>works properly is 4.11, however, at this point I would prefer to not put >>another 4.x box in production. I have tried booting in safe mode and >>rebooting and I get the same result. I've tried disabling usb in the >>bios, in the kernel, and in both, and it still has the same results. >> >>Any ideas what could fix this? >> >> > >Hi Chris, > >This is not my area of expertise, but this sounds like an ACPI problem to >me. You might try googling that (in conjunction with your motherboard) and >see what comes up. > >HTH, > -Andy. > > > I have tried booting up with ACPI disabled. I still experienced the same reboot problem. I also thought that safe mode disabled acpi? I have also updated the bios on the motherboard and the bios on the raid card to see if they were the problem. Same problem persists. Chris
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