From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 16 23:36:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from [127.0.0.1] (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD28A1065674; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:36:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jkim@FreeBSD.org) From: Jung-uk Kim To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:36:16 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20101115045549.GB96011@johnny.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <20101115045549.GB96011@johnny.reilly.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011161836.18526.jkim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Subject: Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:36:29 -0000 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