From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Feb  8 18:06:28 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06BAA16A422
	for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Wed,  8 Feb 2006 18:06:28 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com)
Received: from pproxy.gmail.com (pproxy.gmail.com [64.233.166.183])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0CE43D77
	for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Wed,  8 Feb 2006 18:06:19 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com)
Received: by pproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i49so375934pye
	for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:06:18 -0800 (PST)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references;
	b=cnpKFE0M/y8KCsKqoX1LJeJUGerLqacHMZrZGimhv0ILY+hhMFRwhfTMk97Uw0nszDw7HDBoEj8SsJsv4Huvq5FwwXE2WogAE5jq5tQGvr8wurnSHuZcRdZR4QDq6dSOxG09FhCZPBttKrlPr0D71/VBqjcl/SNadctG4AxblPk=
Received: by 10.35.22.17 with SMTP id z17mr266865pyi;
	Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:37:57 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.35.28.4 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:37:57 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <2a41acea0602080937ga597b82n241fcef4bcf26586@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:37:57 -0800
From: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Arnold <chris@arnold.se>
In-Reply-To: <20060208135710.B11963@home.arnold.se>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <20060208135710.B11963@home.arnold.se>
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Intel watchdog timer
X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code <freebsd-stable.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>,
	<mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:06:28 -0000

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