From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 28 01:48:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D3316A408 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:48:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bl.uto@unix.net) Received: from boinc.ch (84-73-181-254.dclient.hispeed.ch [84.73.181.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35EBD43D46 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:48:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bl.uto@unix.net) Received: (qmail 50957 invoked by uid 0); 28 Apr 2006 01:48:37 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mail.boinc.ch) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Apr 2006 01:48:37 -0000 Received: from 65.96.210.62 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mut) by mail.boinc.ch with HTTP; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:48:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <38960.65.96.210.62.1146188917.squirrel@mail.boinc.ch> In-Reply-To: <4450AB74.5020709@meetinghouse.net> References: <4450AB74.5020709@meetinghouse.net> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:48:37 -0400 (EDT) From: bl.uto@unix.net To: "Miles Fidelman" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.7 [CVS] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:21:55 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reboot hangs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bl.uto@unix.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:48:27 -0000 try to disable ACPI in the loader scripts... ACPI_ENABLE=NO if i am not mistaken -jt > Hi, > > I'm a BSD newbie, trying to get FreeBSD installed (not a Unix newbie > though - a lot of linux and Solaris experience, plus BSD in its MacOS > flavor). > > So far, the install has gone very smoothly, with one minor glitch: a > reboot hangs after reporting "Rebooting..." - which seems to be > generated by the loader code, just before it initiates a reboot > > As far as I can tell, this seems to be a BIOS/motherboard issue (Foxconn > 661MXF7M1-S), but it also seems to be a problem people run into with > various other motherboards and BIOSs. > > In the Linux world, adding "reboot=b" to kernel options (use the BIOS > reboot function) solves the problem nicely, but I can't seem to find an > equivalent for FreeBSD. Is there one? Are there any other hacks > available? > > Thanks very much. > > Miles > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- -jt