Will not boot from halt

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Sun Aug 6 10:39:41 UTC 2006


Jerry McAllister wrote:

> Then I could let it set and either cut the power or hit a key
> and make it reboot.
> 
> But.    Now, I do the shutdown -h now and it goes down to that
> halted state with the same message.    But, when I hit a key
> it seems to ignore it and just sits there and seems to do nothing.   
> To reboot then, I have to kill the power and turn it back on.
> 
> I am not trying to get it to go all the way down to poweroff - 
> just sit there and wait for me to hit a key for a reboot - without
> doing a poweroff, which worked fine under FreeBSD 4.xxx
> 
> Has anyone noticed something like this?   Is it an OS change/bug
> or did I probably do something weird when I did the reinstall.
> It is more of an annoyance than a big problem, but something isn't
> right.
> 
> By the way, shutdown -r now seems to work as expected.

I have the exact same problem after updating from FBSD 5.4. I had
thought it was just me.

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Gerard Seibert
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