Re: reboot hangs at Uptime:

Quoting Sten Spans <sten_at_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?

Kind regards,

Richard Tector