Re: reboot hangs at Uptime:

From: Sten Spans (sten_at_blinkenlights.nl)
Date: 05/30/05

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To: Richard Tector <richardtector@thekeelecentre.com>

    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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