From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 10 09:09:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D6916A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:09:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay03.pair.com (relay03.pair.com [209.68.5.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97FC843D1F for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:09:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from travis@desideratum.com) Received: (qmail 86371 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2004 09:09:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?12.215.41.162?) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 10 Nov 2004 09:09:56 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 12.215.41.162 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.1.0.040913 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:10:02 -0600 From: "Travis J. Hicks" To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Rebooting fails after installing 5.3-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:09:58 -0000 On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 04:46:53 -0600, Travis J. Hicks 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 Just an update on my progress: There is no option in the BIOS of my ASUS board for disabling ACPI. On the suggestion of someone else with an ASUS board I switched the interrupt mode from APIC to PIC, which did not help. If at the Beastie menu I choose option 2, ACPI disabled, it does not help. If I choose option 3, safe mode, it does not help. If I choose option 4, single user mode, it does not help. If I choose option 6, then run 'unset acpi_load', 'set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"', 'boot', it does not help. Only by choosing option 7, reboot, have I gotten the machine to reboot successfully. Using 'reboot' or 'shutdown -r now' resets the machine to a state where the BIOS never comes up and the reset button must be pushed to boot the machine. I tried resetting my BIOS, erasing my hard drive, and doing another clean install of 5.3-RELEASE. The issue is still present. I removed the NIC and CD-ROM (everything but the hard drive) and the issue is still present. I never had a single problem with 4.9-RELEASE or Windows XP Pro on this box. This is my first time installing a 5.x build, and while I'd love to use it, not being able to reboot unless I'm at arm's reach from the reset button is a pain. Any ideas? -- Best Regards, Travis J. Hicks