Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:53:36 -0600 (CST) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: coming back up after power failure (UPS) Message-ID: <20060308155232.T80402@bravo.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <20060308213902.20642.qmail@web60021.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060308213902.20642.qmail@web60021.mail.yahoo.com>
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> On an updated 5.4 box I am using Network UPS Tools (NUT) with an APC
> Smart-UPS.
>
> All is going very well but I cannot bring my box back up after
> simulating a power failure. At the end of the shutdown the screen
> shows:
>
> "Press any key to reboot"
>
> Obviously this is not the desired outcome.
>
> How can I get my system to go down completely? Beyond this I
> understand there may be some BIOS adjustments to be made.
man shutdown...
-p The system is halted and the power is turned off (hardware
support required) at the specified time.
for starters... but yeah, you might need some BIOS changes...
>
> I thought ACPI might have something to do with this. The next time
> around I booted with this disabled but this lead to another problem.
> My network could not be initialized. I got this message a few times
> during startup and then the boot sequence continued with networking
> disabled:
>
> "sk0: watchdog timeout"
>
> I rebooted again, this time with ACPI enabled, and all was well again.
>
> --
> Peter
>
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