From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 2 16:38: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB4637B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:37:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web21109.mail.yahoo.com (web21109.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.227.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47EFE43E3B for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hitmaster2k@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020702233753.53586.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [62.254.0.5] by web21109.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:37:53 PDT Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:37:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Hiten Pandya Reply-To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: AMI MegaRAID + Reboot issues To: Garance A Drosihn , Byron Schlemmer , FreeBSD-Hackers Cc: FreeBSD-Questions In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Garance A Drosihn 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