Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 19:58:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Will not boot from halt Message-ID: <200608052358.k75Nw6DO003235@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Hi, The other day I did a complete rebuild by doing a fresh install/CVsup on my office machine and brought it to FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE-p3. The box is a Dell Optiplex GX-270. It is dual booted with Win XP. I didn't make any changes to the XP. Previously, if I did a 'shutdown -h now' it would do the shutdown and stop with a message on the console saying: The Operating system has halted Please press any key to reboot Then I could let it set and either cut the power or hit a key and make it reboot. But. Now, I do the shutdown -h now and it goes down to that halted state with the same message. But, when I hit a key it seems to ignore it and just sits there and seems to do nothing. To reboot then, I have to kill the power and turn it back on. I am not trying to get it to go all the way down to poweroff - just sit there and wait for me to hit a key for a reboot - without doing a poweroff, which worked fine under FreeBSD 4.xxx Has anyone noticed something like this? Is it an OS change/bug or did I probably do something weird when I did the reinstall. It is more of an annoyance than a big problem, but something isn't right. By the way, shutdown -r now seems to work as expected. Also, on another box I have here - A Dell Precision 330 which is currently at FreeBSD 6.0 (also dual booted, but with Win-200x) it seems to work as I expect and as the other one did before the upgrade. ////jerry
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