Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 06:39:41 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will not boot from halt Message-ID: <20060806063807.28B6.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <200608052358.k75Nw6DO003235@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200608052358.k75Nw6DO003235@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: > Then I could let it set and either cut the power or hit a key > and make it reboot. > > But. Now, I do the shutdown -h now and it goes down to that > halted state with the same message. But, when I hit a key > it seems to ignore it and just sits there and seems to do nothing. > To reboot then, I have to kill the power and turn it back on. > > I am not trying to get it to go all the way down to poweroff - > just sit there and wait for me to hit a key for a reboot - without > doing a poweroff, which worked fine under FreeBSD 4.xxx > > Has anyone noticed something like this? Is it an OS change/bug > or did I probably do something weird when I did the reinstall. > It is more of an annoyance than a big problem, but something isn't > right. > > By the way, shutdown -r now seems to work as expected. I have the exact same problem after updating from FBSD 5.4. I had thought it was just me. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net
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