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Date:      Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:36:16 -0500
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?
Message-ID:  <201011161836.18526.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101115045549.GB96011@johnny.reilly.home>
References:  <20101115045549.GB96011@johnny.reilly.home>

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On Sunday 14 November 2010 11:55 pm, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> Oh: the other thing about this system: I can't warm-start
> it, have to power down and then manually hit the power-on
> button.  Attempting to reboot leaves the console sitting at
> something like "Stopping other CPUs" forever.  I assume that
> this is a BIOS config problem, but haven't found the right
> control knob yet.  I've tried turning hyperthreading on and off:
> no difference.  Reading the kernel code around that message
> suggests that rebooting involves getting the keyboard controller
> to send an NMI, and I wonder if the legacy-free no-keyboard
> state of my system is having an effect on that, too?

You may try "sysctl hw.acpi.handle_reboot=1".  If it works, just add 
it in /etc/sysctl.conf.

FYI, it is automatically set since r213755 and MFC'd to stable/8 as 
r215006.

Jung-uk Kimr213755



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