From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 25 21:14:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA04687 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:14:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line2.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA04681 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA03103; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:13:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: netnology@psinet.net.au cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shutdown command In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970825131557.00960690@mail.psinet.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 netnology@psinet.net.au wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a problem using freebsd 2.2.2 running on an AMD 586 133 chip. > Everything works fine except for restarting the machine. The command > "shutdown -r now" used to force a reboot, seems to be working, sync's the > disks and then does nothing. I leave it for about 20-25 minutes and still > it won't restart. The "shutdown now" command works fine, but now with the > "-r" option. This used to work when using 2.0.5, but since the upgrade - > nothing. This happens on some systems, and there isn't much you can do for it. Blame it on cheap hardware. There is a kernel option called `BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET' that you could compile with and that would try a more direct method of rebooting the system. See LINT for usage. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo