Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 09:32:36 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: insane@oneinsane.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System will not Complete Shutdown Message-ID: <199810251732.JAA12128@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:44:40 %2B0900." <199810220144.KAA09156@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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In message <199810220144.KAA09156@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, Kazutaka YOK OTA writes: > > >I Just built a new box that I am going to make sorta a > >Firewall/Gateway box. Here is the dmesg output. > [...] > >The system works fine untill I issue a shutdown -r now or reboot. > >The system appears to shutdown untill This is the last thing on the screen. > > > >Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown. [snip] > For reasons unintelligible to me, IBM decided to put the CPU reset > circuit wired to the keyboard controller in the IBM AT computer. You > are supposed to instruct the keyboard controller to reset the CPU when > you want to restart the system. > > Unfortunately, the keyboard controller is one of peripheral chips which > often have subtle compatibility problems. The FreeBSD kernel talks to > the keyboard controller in order to reboot the system. If it finds > the reset didn't work, it prints the above message. > > Please add the following option to your kernel configuration file, > rebuild the kernel, and see if it works. > > options "BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET" I had similar problems with FreeBSD and OS/2. Replacing the keyboard BIOS (keyboard controller) solved the problem. Apparently the "F" level keyboard BIOS fixes this problem. The "M" level keyboard BIOS will hang during boot of certain operating systems. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Open Systems Group Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Government of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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