Re: reboot hangs at Uptime:

On Sun, 29 May 2005, Richard Tector wrote:

> 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?

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

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