reboot hangs

[Miles Fidelman]

Just tried turning off ACPI in the BIOS - and that seems to work, so I 
expect ACPI_ENABLE=NO will too.

But then power control goes out the window. I wonder what it is that 
Linux's reboot=b kernel switch does that leave ACPI active, but allows a 
reboot to work properly.

Thanks,

Miles

bl.uto at unix.net wrote:
> try to disable ACPI in the loader scripts... ACPI_ENABLE=NO if i am not
> mistaken
> 
> -jt
> 
>> 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
>>
>>
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