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Date:      Sun, 29 May 2005 23:13:56 +0100
From:      Richard Tector <richardtector@thekeelecentre.com>
To:        Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: reboot hangs at Uptime:
Message-ID:  <20050529231356.g3a9jpkfko00ogwk@webmail.thekeelecentre.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0505292040440.21292@tea.blinkenlights.nl>
References:  <20050529082742.GA836@kukulies.org> <4299C17D.9090802@thekeelecentre.com> <Pine.SOC.4.61.0505292040440.21292@tea.blinkenlights.nl>

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Quoting Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl>:

> On Sun, 29 May 2005, Richard Tector wrote:
>>
>> I've had a similar problem for a while on a dual P3 Gateway branded 
>> Asus CUR-DLS motherboard but never really looked into it much. At 
>> the time I tried both with and without the ACPI module loaded; 
>> reboots are not possible. The machine hangs just after printing 
>> something like cpu0: reset()
>> A basic shutdown -p now works fine and powers the machine off. 
>> Issuing reboot/shutdown -r now however results in the above 
>> behaviour. The system has tracked HEAD for a few months and the 
>> problem has existed as long as I can remember.
>>
>> The machine is currently running the latest BIOS released by 
>> Gateway. I didn't fancy trying the newer BIOS's from Asus. I've 
>> attached a copy of the boot dmesg. If there's any other information 
>> that might be of help I can supply that.
>
> Try turning on usb in the bios (even if you don't have usb in the kernel),
> this solved my reboot issues with supermicro serverworks p3 motherboards.
>

Wow, that solved it, thanks. How very odd, I don't think I'd have ever thought
of that one.
Have you encountered similar reboot issues while running any other operating
system, or just FreeBSD?

Kind regards,

Richard Tector




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