From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 21:01:24 2005 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 7A92C16A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:01:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7C3343D39 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:01:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derekm@rogers.com) Received: from unknown (HELO chesed.razorfever.net) (plick@rogers.com@70.25.112.61 with plain) by smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Jan 2005 21:01:23 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.201] ([192.168.0.201])j0PL1MnA045472 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:01:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from derekm@rogers.com) Message-ID: <41F6B3AF.70206@rogers.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:01:35 -0500 From: Derek User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050112) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.70, clamav-milter version 0.70j Subject: Re: FreeBSD ACPI shutdown -p fails on my Motherboard 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: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:01:24 -0000 Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > The ACPI is already enabled in BIOS but > whenever I shutdown -p now, the computer doesn't > totally goes off at all, it just reboots itself. It's likely that the ACPI implementation of your BIOS has its own quirks that have not been taken into account for in the FreeBSD ACPI implementation. I would suggest upgrading to the latest BIOS if you are not already there. > Because I'm having a hard time turning my > computer back on whenever I presses the power button > during a reboot by Freebsd and I would have to turn > the power on and off for quite some times just to be > able to boot it to normal again. Not sure I fully understand here. But, if I'm reading this correctly as: "I have problems turning my computer back on after issuing a 'shutdown -p now'" I would suggest instead of trying a bunch of times turning the machine on and off, hold the power button in for 5 seconds, and then power on. Holding the power button in for 5 seconds _forces_ the system to shut off in all but the most extreme cases of failures. Your system may have become unresponsive after the 'shutdown -p now'... Cheers, Derek