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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


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