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Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:06:03 +0530
From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Rebooting fails after installing 5.3-RELEASE
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On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 04:46:53 -0600, Travis J. Hicks
<travis@desideratum.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a custom PC with an ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard, 256MB of RAM, a WD
> hard drive, a generic CD-ROM drive, and a D-Link DFE-530TX+ NIC. I had
> FreeBSD 4.9 on one partition and Windows XP Pro on another. Tonight I erased
> the 4.9 partition and installed 5.3.
> 
> Since then I have been unable to get the machine to reboot when booted into
> FreeBSD. Calling "reboot" or "shutdown -r now" syncs, displays the uptime,
> then roughly says:
> 
> Shutting down ACPI
> Stray irq9
> ACPI-0265: *** Error: Hardware never changed modes

Looks like a broken ACPI to me. TO diagnose the problem try disabling
ACPI from the BIOS and go with the same experiment. Please post the
results along with dmesg.

Regards
S.

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Subhro Sankha Kar
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