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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 09:46:51 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Vladislav S. Davidzon" <davidzon@metronet.lib.mi.us>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Passing parameters
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980118144808.19441A-100000@metronet.lib.mi.us>; from Vladislav S. Davidzon on Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 02:48:28PM -0500
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On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 02:48:28PM -0500, Vladislav S. Davidzon wrote:
> Good afternoon.
>
> I have just successufly installed my first FreeBSD machine.
> However, there is one problem.  This particular machine
> is a weird one.  I used to run Linux on it, and it required
> the option "append reboot=bios" to be passed to the kernel
> in Linux in order for it to reboot with a shutdown -r now.
>
> How do I do this in FreeBSD?  Is there a different parameter
> that I should pass to the kernel?
>
> Currently this machine will not reboot without me physically
> powercycling it.

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.

Greg