Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:44:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Stephen Nadas <nadas@raleigh.ibm.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 FreeBSD and reboot hang Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807301425120.17630-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199807301142.HAA24774@rtpmail01.raleigh.ibm.com>
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Stephen Nadas wrote: > I tried this; it had no effect whatsoever :-( Can't help you, then. Sorry. > I am at a loss, since reboot on 2.2.6 worked fine on this hardware. > I want to try 2.2.7 on an IDE based system to see what happens there, > but it may take me a few days to get to that. The release notes did > talk about changes in the SCSI support, I think. The only changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 is some PC98-specific reboot code. That's it. If you know a magic way of rebooting any CPU, check out the code in /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/vm_machdep.c, look for `cpu_reset'. > > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Stephen Nadas wrote: > > > > > I just installed 2.2.7 on a machine that previously had 2.2.6 on it. > > > All seems well, except, that reboot hangs: > > > > > > the disk sync message appears, then the reboot message appears, but > > > the system does not reboot. this system does have an adaptec 2940 > > > board... > > > > Try building a kernel with > > > > options BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET > > > > This is hard one to track down since some systems (particulary IBM gear > > [cough cough]) since they don't follow the standard system reboot > > procedure, for some odd reason. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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