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Date:      Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:37:57 -0800
From:      Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
To:        Christopher Arnold <chris@arnold.se>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel watchdog timer
Message-ID:  <2a41acea0602080937ga597b82n241fcef4bcf26586@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060208135710.B11963@home.arnold.se>
References:  <20060208135710.B11963@home.arnold.se>

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On 2/8/06, Christopher Arnold <chris@arnold.se> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> does anyone have any info on how to disable the watchdog timer on an inte=
l
> serverboard model SE7501WV2?
>
> I have found the userland application to disable the watchdog in the ICH
> but that dosnt help much when i cant even get 6.0 installed before the
> timer goes off...
>
> Wouldnt it be a good idea if we could disable the timer when booting in
> failsafe mode from the installation CD?

This should be a BIOS option, I dont have one of these to be sure, but
look into the System Management/BMC stuff in the BIOS. That's just
a guess.

Jack



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