Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:31:43 -0600 From: Billy Newsom <smartweb@leadhill.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How do I do a COLD Reboot on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <41FE414F.1050001@leadhill.net>
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I need to do a cold restart. I've looked through a lot of docs, and I can't seem to find this out. The computer I am working with seems to no longer enjoy a warm reboot (like "shutdown -r now" or "reboot") but I'm pretty sure it will do cold reboots fine. Is there a port, or is the shutdown command hackable for this, or what? I remember many computers in bygone years which had this problem. It was pretty common back in the 90's it seems like. Computers would reboot and act weird using CTRL-ALT-DELETE, but work fine when powered off and on. The computer I've got actually fails a memory test during the warm reboot. This freezes it. I have to power cycle the machine. And then, the computer performs a warm restart, bypassing its memory checks! One more power cycle laster, it will boot normally. If I don't do this last reboot, the FreeBSD boot loader or the beginning of the kernel boot crashes very early. It's stable otherwise on a cold reboot. Thanks, Billy
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