3.9 reboot question

[Daniel T. Staal]

On Tue, May 2, 2006 8:56 am, Frank Bax said:
> Last week, I installed 3.9 (from cdrom, of course) and I don't like the
> idea that reboot doesn't work.
>
> $ sudo /sbin/reboot
> /etc/rc.shutdown in progress...
> /etc/rc.shutdown complete.
> syncing disks... done
> rebooting...
>
> Then, nothing.  It just sits there until I press the reset button.  I
> haven't even installed any packages yet.  I was planning to deploy this
> machine as a remote server, but it will be awkward on those rare occasions
> when I want to reboot if it needs physical intervention to get started
> again.  What do I do now?  Is dmesg useful in this context? Here it is
> (cdrom drive was removed after install)...

(I'm sure the dmesg will be useful to someone, however I don't know enough
to read what I need from it.)

I'm guessing that this machine isn't supporting software power-down (or,
at least not in a way that OpenBSD knows about).  That's fairly common on
old machines, though not so common these days.

One thing to try would be looking at the BIOS setup.  Sometimes there is a
setting you can change that will enable this.

Daniel T. Staal

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