Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:37:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Byron Schlemmer <me@byron.me.uk>, FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: AMI MegaRAID + Reboot issues Message-ID: <20020702233753.53586.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <p05111718b947a6fa53ba@[128.113.24.47]>
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--- Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote: > At 4:49 PM +0100 7/2/02, Byron Schlemmer wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I've posted on this before, and I've received no reply. I'm > >cross-posting just in case it was missed before (I am desperate for > >help) and to ask for further advice. > > > >Basically we have a number of FreeBSD servers, running 4.5-RELEASE > >and 4.6-RELEASE, that use AMI MegaRaid 500 controllers. These boxes > >refuse to reboot when sent a reboot or shutdown -r. They simply > >close all processes and show : > > > >amr0: flushing cache...done > >Rebooting... > > > >At this point the numlock key is locked, and Ctrl + Alt + Deleting > >does nothing. > > This will not help much, but I can at least say that I have noticed > your messages go by. Unfortunately I have no experience with any > raid controllers under freebsd. If you made it successfully to the > "Rebooting..." line, then I think it's at the point that freebsd > has done everything it expected to do, and freebsd has told the > hardware to reboot. > > I do not know why the hardware wouldn't reboot at that point. Did you check the BIOS settings on that machines, and if the Raid controller has its own BIOS, did you check that as well? Just an FYI. -- Hiten __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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