From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 12 14:10:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA2116A400 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:10:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@xecu.net) Received: from mss2.myactv.net (mss2.myactv.net [24.89.0.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BDCC43D46 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:10:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@xecu.net) Received: (qmail 25241 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2006 14:10:55 -0000 Received: from dyn-24-13.myactv.net (HELO ?192.168.1.86?) (24.89.24.13) by mss2.myactv.net with SMTP; 12 Apr 2006 14:10:55 -0000 Message-ID: <443D0A6E.8020402@xecu.net> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:10:54 -0400 From: Christopher McGee User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <443C08F3.90701@xecu.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Reboot hangs on xeon server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:10:56 -0000 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