Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:36:16 -0500 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server? Message-ID: <201011161836.18526.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20101115045549.GB96011@johnny.reilly.home> References: <20101115045549.GB96011@johnny.reilly.home>
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On Sunday 14 November 2010 11:55 pm, Andrew Reilly wrote: > Oh: the other thing about this system: I can't warm-start > it, have to power down and then manually hit the power-on > button. Attempting to reboot leaves the console sitting at > something like "Stopping other CPUs" forever. I assume that > this is a BIOS config problem, but haven't found the right > control knob yet. I've tried turning hyperthreading on and off: > no difference. Reading the kernel code around that message > suggests that rebooting involves getting the keyboard controller > to send an NMI, and I wonder if the legacy-free no-keyboard > state of my system is having an effect on that, too? You may try "sysctl hw.acpi.handle_reboot=1". If it works, just add it in /etc/sysctl.conf. FYI, it is automatically set since r213755 and MFC'd to stable/8 as r215006. Jung-uk Kimr213755
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