Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 09:53:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Vladislav S. Davidzon" <davidzon@metronet.lib.mi.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passing parameters Message-ID: <19980119095328.49518@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980118181744.6001A-100000@metronet.lib.mi.us>; from Vladislav S. Davidzon on Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 06:20:09PM -0500 References: <19980119094651.28071@lemis.com> <Pine.SUN.3.96.980118181744.6001A-100000@metronet.lib.mi.us>
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On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 06:20:09PM -0500, Vladislav S. Davidzon wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Hmm. The FreeBSD boot is different from the Linux boot, and I would >> have said "you don't need that", but since you have difficulty >> rebooting, that doesn't sound like the correct answer. >> >> Does your system have a reset button? If so, are you saying that it >> doesn't work? How far do you get with the reboot before it hangs? >> >> There is a kernel option BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET, but before you go to >> the trouble of building a new kernel, it would be good to know whether >> it is likely to help. > > The reset button does the job, but for a terminal server thats not a very > good option. I have to be able to reboot it remotely. > > I can recompile the kernel, I've compiled this one, so it shouldn't be > much of a problem. How do I set that "broken keyboard reset" option? I > did not see it when I configured the kernel. It should be in the LINT configuration file. See below for what to add. > The reboot says that the keyboard reboot failed, trying to do a cpu > shutdown and then it dies. That's the one. Put this anywhere in your kernel configuration file: --- snip --- # BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET disables the use of the keyboard controller to # reset the CPU for reboot. This is needed on some systems with broken # keyboard controllers. options BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET --- snip --- That should solve the problem. Greg
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