Re: reboot hangs at Uptime:

From: Richard Tector <richardtector_at_thekeelecentre.com>
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 23:13:56 +0100
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
Received on Sun May 29 2005 - 20:14:01 UTC

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