Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 05:40:28 -0800 (PST) From: M K <marjolien_k@yahoo.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reboot problems Message-ID: <20040104134028.8289.qmail@web20509.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040104103717.GC14277@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew, Thank you for the advise. I'll try those options. MK. Great, I'll try --- Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > [ Machine not resetting properly and thus failing to > reboot ] > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:17:50AM -0800, M K wrote: > > Sorry, I can't do it at this moment because I am > > installing FreeBSD again (some other ugly problem > that > > was caused by me). I've noticed another thing: if > I > > enter the SCSI bios and than the system wants to > > reboot, it's also not working! Can I assume that > this > > is a hardware issue, not FreeBSD? > > This could well be a hardware problem, but don't > rule out FreeBSD > issues just yet. I had a similar niggling problem > on the machine I'm > using right now: telling the system to 'shutdown -r' > would shutdown > just fine, but the reset that is the prelude to > rebooting would never > happen. Had to hit the reset button manually every > time. > > I found that enabling the apm(4) stuff helped, but > wasn't a complete > cure. Then when some acpi support was MFC'd from > -CURRENT, enabling > that and turning off apm(4) has made the whole > reboot thing work > perfectly, although it does make the floppy drive > unusable. A floppy > I can live without. > > I'd advise you to try out those three options -- > apci enabled, apm > enabled or neither enabled. You'll need to build > some custom kernels > to try out those options. Which (if any) works > depends on what > motherboard chipset your machine has. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. > 26 The Paddocks > > Savill Way > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey > Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 > Bucks., SL7 1TH UK > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003
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