From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 10:24:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cdale3.midwest.net (cdale3.midwest.net [208.235.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF8E14F02 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 10:24:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parrothd@midwest.net) Received: from supplies (parrothd.midwest.net [208.235.2.231]) by cdale3.midwest.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA07357; Wed, 12 May 1999 12:24:34 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199905121724.MAA07357@cdale3.midwest.net> X-Sender: parrothd@mail.midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:30:50 -0500 To: wayne@crb-web.com, FreeBSD Questions From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Re: Laptop will not reboot In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What about plain old "reboot" you need to emable amp (rc.conf * kernl mod, check the PAO site) support for the machine to poweroff with the shutdown...... At 09:10 AM 5/12/99 -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote: >I am using a Dell Latitude laptop with FreeBSD 3.1. If I do a 'shutdown -r >now' everything proceeds and I see the words 'Rebooting' and the machine >just sits there. None of the keys have any effect not even the power button, >at this point I need to reset the machine via pulling the battery. > >If I do 'shutdown -h now' the machine halts and I can cycle the power with the >on/off switch. > > >Do I need to rebuild the kernel with some special option in order to get the >machine to reboot? > >Thanks, >Wayne > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Jonathan E. Lyons FreeBSD:The Power to Serve parrothd@midwest.net MCP, MCSE, A+ Certified http://parrothd.midwest.net/ ICQ # 14226912 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message