From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 15:23:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25238 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 15:23:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25230 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 15:23:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA06584; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 09:53:29 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA13312; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 09:53:28 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980119095328.49518@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 09:53:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Vladislav S. Davidzon" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passing parameters References: <19980119094651.28071@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Vladislav S. Davidzon on Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 06:20:09PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 06:20:09PM -0500, Vladislav S. Davidzon wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Hmm. The FreeBSD boot is different from the Linux boot, and I would >> have said "you don't need that", but since you have difficulty >> rebooting, that doesn't sound like the correct answer. >> >> Does your system have a reset button? If so, are you saying that it >> doesn't work? How far do you get with the reboot before it hangs? >> >> There is a kernel option BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET, but before you go to >> the trouble of building a new kernel, it would be good to know whether >> it is likely to help. > > The reset button does the job, but for a terminal server thats not a very > good option. I have to be able to reboot it remotely. > > I can recompile the kernel, I've compiled this one, so it shouldn't be > much of a problem. How do I set that "broken keyboard reset" option? I > did not see it when I configured the kernel. It should be in the LINT configuration file. See below for what to add. > The reboot says that the keyboard reboot failed, trying to do a cpu > shutdown and then it dies. That's the one. Put this anywhere in your kernel configuration file: --- snip --- # BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET disables the use of the keyboard controller to # reset the CPU for reboot. This is needed on some systems with broken # keyboard controllers. options BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET --- snip --- That should solve the problem. Greg