Rebooting fails after installing 5.3-RELEASE

[Travis J. Hicks]

On 11/9/04 7:36 AM, "Subhro" <subhro.kar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 04:46:53 -0600, Travis J. Hicks
> <travis at desideratum.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have a custom PC with an ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard, 256MB of RAM, a WD
>> hard drive, a generic CD-ROM drive, and a D-Link DFE-530TX+ NIC. I had
>> FreeBSD 4.9 on one partition and Windows XP Pro on another. Tonight I erased
>> the 4.9 partition and installed 5.3.
>> 
>> Since then I have been unable to get the machine to reboot when booted into
>> FreeBSD. Calling "reboot" or "shutdown -r now" syncs, displays the uptime,
>> then roughly says:
>> 
>> Shutting down ACPI
>> Stray irq9
>> ACPI-0265: *** Error: Hardware never changed modes
> 
> Looks like a broken ACPI to me. TO diagnose the problem try disabling
> ACPI from the BIOS and go with the same experiment. Please post the
> results along with dmesg.

Hello,

I don't see an option to disable ACPI in the BIOS. I read the motherboard
manual; it mentions supporting ACPI but does not mention any way to disable
it via the BIOS or jumper settings. The only related thing I see is the
ability to enable or disable an ACPI Suspend To RAM feature, which is
currently disabled. I googled for how to do it and didn't find anything.

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Best Regards,
Travis J. Hicks