3.9 reboot question

[Frank Bax]

At 09:12 AM 5/2/06, Daniel T. Staal wrote:

>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.


It's a brand new system - Gigabyte P4 Titan GA-8S661FXM-775


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


I don't see anything appropriate.