Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 09:46:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Vladislav S. Davidzon" <davidzon@metronet.lib.mi.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passing parameters Message-ID: <19980119094651.28071@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980118144808.19441A-100000@metronet.lib.mi.us>; from Vladislav S. Davidzon on Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 02:48:28PM -0500 References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980118144808.19441A-100000@metronet.lib.mi.us>
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On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 02:48:28PM -0500, Vladislav S. Davidzon wrote: > Good afternoon. > > I have just successufly installed my first FreeBSD machine. > However, there is one problem. This particular machine > is a weird one. I used to run Linux on it, and it required > the option "append reboot=bios" to be passed to the kernel > in Linux in order for it to reboot with a shutdown -r now. > > How do I do this in FreeBSD? Is there a different parameter > that I should pass to the kernel? > > Currently this machine will not reboot without me physically > powercycling it. Hmm. The FreeBSD boot is different from the Linux boot, and I would have said "you don't need that", but since you have difficulty rebooting, that doesn't sound like the correct answer. Does your system have a reset button? If so, are you saying that it doesn't work? How far do you get with the reboot before it hangs? There is a kernel option BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET, but before you go to the trouble of building a new kernel, it would be good to know whether it is likely to help. Greg
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