From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 07:27:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1151D37B401 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 07:27:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu (GS166.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.205.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EF9643F93 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 07:27:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu) Sender: dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Dan Pelleg Date: 29 May 2003 10:27:22 -0400 Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Compaq deskpro won't reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 14:27:57 -0000 Trying to make use of an old system - Compaq deskpro EN 350Mhz, I ran into the following problem: If you issue a reboot(8) the machine shuts down, but it never comes back. You have to hit the power button off and then back on. Otherwise the machine just sits there, screen blank. The system does shut down cleanly. A web search brings up similar reports for the EP series on NetBSD and Linux. So I'm aware this is probably a BIOS bug. But I'd still like some workaround. I already tried playing with the BIOS settings (one person reports that changing the disk mode to PIO solved it for him - no luck here). Also toggled the DIP switch to make the machine come back up from a power failure w/o waiting for the user to powercycle. Nothing seems to work. Any suggestions? -- Dan Pelleg