From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 23 12:33:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09454 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:33:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09448 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:33:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA08205; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:32:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:32:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Vladislav S. Davidzon" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Rebooting via BIOS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Vladislav S. Davidzon wrote: > This is my second post to the list. I have a 486 machine > which used to run linux, now converted to FreeBSD. In order > to get it to reboot (at all) in Linux I had to pass a > reboot=bios to the kernel at boot time via Lilo. How would > I do this under FreeBSD? It currently hangs right before > it should reboot (says rebooting and then hangs). The > keyboard fix in the kernel did not work (the don't reboot > with the keyboard thing). Someone answered this already. Are you sure your mail address is OK? Try building a new kernel with options BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ for instructions on rebuilding your kernel. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major