kern/166806: Inability to reboot system

[Attilio Rao]

The following reply was made to PR kern/166806; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Attilio Rao <attilio at freebsd.org>
To: RX <rx at sigint.ws>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/166806: Inability to reboot system
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 17:18:11 +0100

 2012/5/2 RX <rx at sigint.ws>:
 > On 05/01/12 15:29, Attilio Rao wrote:
 >>
 >> Can you try to update your BIOS to latest available version and see if
 >> handle_reboot changes its value? Thanks, Attilio
 >
 >
 > The system is already running the current bios version, 2.3.0.
 >
 > What relation does handle_reboot have here ? =C2=A0All systems I've check=
 ed have
 > this set to '0'.
 
 It means that your ACPI FADT doesn't likely have RESET_REG on.
 However, maybe you don't even get to the cpu stopping part, can you
 apply the following patch and tell me if you see more output before to
 stop?
 http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/shutdowncheck.patch
 
 Also do you have a serial console you can use on any of those machines?
 
 Attilio
 
 
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