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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 2006 01:13:35 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>
To:        Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>, Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: coming back up after power failure (UPS)
Message-ID:  <20060309061336.3683.qmail@web60021.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20060308175743.02804c38@mail.computinginnovations.com>

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--- Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote:

> Peter,
> 
> Look in the bios in the power management section, for something like
> after 
> loss of power, there set the action to power on, as opposed to stay
> off, or 
> anything else.
> 
> You can test this just power on the unit and pull the plug during the
> bios 
> post.  If it comes back on when you plug it back in, you have it
> right.
> 
> I have NUT set to power down on low battery, so if you need help, let
> me know.
> 
>          -Derek
> 
> 
> At 05:39 PM 3/8/2006, Peter wrote:
> 
> >--- Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > 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...
> > >
> >
> >Well I tried the -p switch and, indeed, the system came down
> >completely.  But now it just
> >sits there.  This is after I enabled this setting in my BIOS:
> >
> >"PME Event Wake UP"
> >
> >I figured that would do the trick but evidently not.  Anything else
> I
> >should be looking at?  How long should the system wait before coming
> >back up?  I waited only a minute.

I did it!

I was almost resigned to the fact that this would not work.  One last
rummage around the BIOS and I see this setting:

"AC Back Function"

Doesn't exactly draw much attention does it?  But that was it.  Damn.

--
Peter

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