Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:39:00 -0500 (EST) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: coming back up after power failure (UPS) Message-ID: <20060308233900.24732.qmail@web60022.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060308155232.T80402@bravo.pjkh.com>
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--- Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> wrote: > > On an updated 5.4 box I am using Network UPS Tools (NUT) with an > APC > > Smart-UPS. > > > > All is going very well but I cannot bring my box back up after > > simulating a power failure. At the end of the shutdown the screen > > shows: > > > > "Press any key to reboot" > > > > Obviously this is not the desired outcome. > > > > How can I get my system to go down completely? Beyond this I > > understand there may be some BIOS adjustments to be made. > > man shutdown... > > -p The system is halted and the power is turned off > (hardware > support required) at the specified time. > > for starters... but yeah, you might need some BIOS changes... > Well I tried the -p switch and, indeed, the system came down completely. But now it just sits there. This is after I enabled this setting in my BIOS: "PME Event Wake UP" I figured that would do the trick but evidently not. Anything else I should be looking at? How long should the system wait before coming back up? I waited only a minute. -- Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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