From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 18 07:44:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA14593 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 07:44:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from asstdc.scgt.oz.au (root@asstdc.scgt.oz.au [202.14.234.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA14586 for <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 07:44:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from imb@localhost) by asstdc.scgt.oz.au (8.6.12/BSD4.4) id CAA03277; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 02:43:54 +1100 From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> Message-Id: <199601181543.CAA03277@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> Subject: Re: Failing reboot. To: dutchman@spase.nl (Kees Jan Koster) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 02:43:51 +1100 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601181440.OAA01428@phobos.spase.nl> from "Kees Jan Koster" at Jan 18, 96 02:40:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24beta] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Kees Jan Koster writes: > My system won't reboot. When I press any key at the message > "Press any key to reboot..." > Nothing happens. > Looking into the code I see that my sweet prince is put to sleep the > hard way, but he doesn't wake up anymore. You are in a twisty little maze of vnodes .. .. xyzzy Nothing happens .. plugh Nothing happens .. <sigh> Seriously, there are two possibilities .. some BIOS implementations have a setting which is marked "keyboard controller reset" and simply bouncing that to the other setting fixes the problem. The other is that you might try recompiling your kernel with the BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET option (as documented in LINT), michael