Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 00:57:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl> To: Richard Tector <richardtector@thekeelecentre.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reboot hangs at Uptime: Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0505300055120.23371@tea.blinkenlights.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050529231356.g3a9jpkfko00ogwk@webmail.thekeelecentre.com> References: <20050529082742.GA836@kukulies.org> <4299C17D.9090802@thekeelecentre.com> <Pine.SOC.4.61.0505292040440.21292@tea.blinkenlights.nl> <20050529231356.g3a9jpkfko00ogwk@webmail.thekeelecentre.com>
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On Sun, 29 May 2005, Richard Tector wrote: > 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? Only freebsd. I've looked at the code, but I couldn't figure out how usb could affect it. Bios writers have mystical ways feng-shui most commonly. -- Sten Spans "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen - Anthem
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