Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:37:34 -0700 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Steve <zflyer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible ACPI shutdown/power off issue Message-ID: <45F4E71E.5000707@root.org> In-Reply-To: <6293ba970703112101l140170di4b0db98a59cf47ee@mail.gmail.com> References: <6293ba970703112101l140170di4b0db98a59cf47ee@mail.gmail.com>
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Steve wrote: > I'm using 6.2-R on a Dell PowerEdge 400SC. > > I recently enabled "Remote Wake Up" (Wake on LAN) in BIOS. Sending a > magic packet to the powered down PC will power it up and it boots > normally. However, now if I attempt a shutdown and power off using > commands "halt -p" or "shutdown -p now" I get a reboot. Disabling WOL > reverts back to the expected behavior. > > I've searched and found the sysctl knob "hw.acpi.disable_on_poweroff" > as a possible solution, but sysctl gives me "unknown oid". > > I'm guessing this issue is related to ACPI. I'm puzzled why enabling > WOL would have this impact. Any ideas on how to fix or troubleshoot > this? Thank you. sysctl -a shows: hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot: 0 hw.acpi.handle_reboot: 0 The former is probably the one you want. The latter tells it to use the Reset Register to reboot the system. That might help also. -- Nate
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