reboot hangs

From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman_at_meetinghouse.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:31:00 -0400
Hi,

I'm a BSD newbie, trying to get FreeBSD installed (not a Unix newbie 
though - a lot of linux and Solaris experience, plus BSD in its MacOS 
flavor).

So far, the install has gone very smoothly, with one minor glitch:  a 
reboot hangs after reporting "Rebooting..." - which seems to be 
generated by the loader code, just before it initiates a reboot

As far as I can tell, this seems to be a BIOS/motherboard issue (Foxconn 
661MXF7M1-S), but it also seems to be a problem people run into with 
various other motherboards and BIOSs.

In the Linux world, adding "reboot=b" to kernel options (use the BIOS 
reboot function) solves the problem nicely, but I can't seem to find an 
equivalent for FreeBSD.  Is there one?  Are there any other hacks available?

Thanks very much.

Miles
Received on Thu Apr 27 2006 - 09:31:04 UTC

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