From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 8 19:17:24 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA18475 for current-outgoing; Sun, 8 Oct 1995 19:17:24 -0700 Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA18469 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 1995 19:17:18 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA09458; Sun, 8 Oct 1995 19:16:48 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199510090216.TAA09458@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: hangs at Rebooting... To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 19:16:48 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510081239.NAA16471@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Oct 8, 95 01:39:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 853 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > After adding > > options "BROKEN_KEYBARD_RESET" > > my machine hangs at > > mulligan# sync ; reboot > > syncing disks... 4 4 2 done > Rebooting... This means your MB is broken such that we have no current way to make it reboot :-(. It fails the keyboard reset, and fails to detect a CPU shutdown condition :-(. To fix this requires about 40 man hours of kernel work to implement a limited ability to call certail bios entry points from real mode. Not an easy task, and one that has been discussed on one of the lists by Bruce, myself and a few others. You _might_ try flashing the latest revision of the BIOS into that thing and see if that clears up the problems, but I doubt it. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD