FreeBSD 6.1 & 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jan 26, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Joe Vender wrote:
>> The fact that you can shutdown within Linux suggests that your
>> hardware does have the capability, so it's just a matter of figuring
>> out what's different.  Note that you might find that trying to run
>> FreeBSD 4.11 to be informative, as the defaults for that older
>> version might correspond with your hardware better, although, 4.11 is
>> at the end of it's supported lifespan...
>
> I've been seriously thinking about getting a copy of the legacy  
> FBSD 5.5
> that's on the website. Maybe there isn't a difference between it  
> and the 6.2
> as far as this powerdown issue is concerned.

You're likely to have better luck with 4.11 than 5.2; if you want to  
try a 5.x release, go with 5.5, as the early 5.x releases were only  
so-so in terms of stability before 5.3...

-- 
-Chuck