Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:52:38 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org>, jfvogel@gmail.com, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Subject: Re: svn commit: r211908 - head/sys/dev/ichwd Message-ID: <201008310752.38299.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4C7C2867.8000407@icyb.net.ua> References: <201008301441.o7UEf9AS090773@lava.sentex.ca> <201008301719.o7UHJ3jU091572@lava.sentex.ca> <4C7C2867.8000407@icyb.net.ua>
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On Monday, August 30, 2010 5:53:43 pm Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 30/08/2010 20:18 Mike Tancsa said the following: > > At 12:51 PM 8/30/2010, Olivier Smedts wrote: > > > >> By any chance, is it disabled in BIOS ? > > > > Hi, > > There are a couple of options in the BIOS. There is a "reboot the box if the > > bios does not post within 6min" as well as "Fire the watchdog if the dog has not > > been patted after 5,10 or 15min after the BIOS post. I tried all combinations > > without luck. If I have the "reboot after x min post post", the box will reboot > > on its own. > > I'd guess that this kind of option would enable OS use of the watchdog. > Perhaps you can contact Intel about this issue, either via their official > support service or via jfv (who is CCed as I see) or both. Most likely these options are for the watchdog in the BMC that IPMI manages rather than the watchdog in the ICH. -- John Baldwin
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