Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:44:40 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: insane@oneinsane.net Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: System will not Complete Shutdown Message-ID: <199810220144.KAA09156@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:37:35 MST." <19981021153735.A569@oneinsane.net> References: <19981021153735.A569@oneinsane.net>
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>I Just built a new box that I am going to make sorta a >Firewall/Gateway box. Here is the dmesg output. [...] >The system works fine untill I issue a shutdown -r now or reboot. >The system appears to shutdown untill This is the last thing on the screen. > >Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown. The message has confused so many people in the past. I think we should change it to something more accurate and understandable... This message has NOTHING to do with the keyboard. It is saying that the kernel has failed to reset the CPU via the keyboard CONTROLLER on the motherboard. You always have a keyboard controller on the motherboard even if you don't have a keyboard attached to it. For reasons unintelligible to me, IBM decided to put the CPU reset circuit wired to the keyboard controller in the IBM AT computer. You are supposed to instruct the keyboard controller to reset the CPU when you want to restart the system. Unfortunately, the keyboard controller is one of peripheral chips which often have subtle compatibility problems. The FreeBSD kernel talks to the keyboard controller in order to reboot the system. If it finds the reset didn't work, it prints the above message. Please add the following option to your kernel configuration file, rebuild the kernel, and see if it works. options "BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET" Again this option name is confusing. It has NOTHING to do with resetting the keyboard. It is about resetting the CPU via the keyboard controller.... >When the above error message appears this is where a normal system would >restart. >This server will not have a keyboard so the BIOS is configured to not halt >on the error when it can not find the keyboard. > >Any info on helping figure this out and get it resolved would be greatly >appreciated. >TIA >Ron Kazu yokota@FreeBSD.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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