From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 5 23:58:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4AD816A4DD for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 23:58:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D2C43D46 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 23:58:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k75Nw6YM003236 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 19:58:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id k75Nw6DO003235 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 19:58:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200608052358.k75Nw6DO003235@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 19:58:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Will not boot from halt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 23:58:06 -0000 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