Problem on 'reboot' and 'shutdown'

[satimis]

Hi all folks,

FreeBSD 5.2
RAM 320MB
AMD K6

I am running into difficulty on 'reboot' and 'shutdown' the PC and could not find a solution from their site. I am in anticpiation this site could throw me som light.

As ROOT

Reboot
=====
following warning appeared;
Syncing disks, buffers remaining ...... 1 1
done
Uptime: um31s
Shutting down ACPI
Rebooting ....
Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU Shutdown.

Then the PC hanged here.

Shutdown
======
# shutdown -h now
....
......
press any key to reboot ....

Hitting a key would start the warning as 'Reboot' and the PC then hanged.

Kindly advise. TIA

B.R.
satimis

[Icarus]

What distro are you using?
Looks like it's an ACPI problem, is it a precompiled kernel or custom? What version?

[satimis]

Originally posted by mahdi
What distro are you using?
Looks like it's an ACPI problem, is it a precompiled kernel or custom? What version?
Hi Moderator,

Tks for your response

# uname -ai
5.2 Release FreeBSD...GENERIC i386

Another guy also met this problem. His solution was to downgrade the version to 4.9

B.R.
satimis

[Minime80]

Sounds like ACPI isn't in the kernel to me too. At least that's what the problem was for me when that happened.

[JohnT]

You would probably find more up to date responses to your FreeBSD questions HERE (http://www.freebsdforums.org/)

Check the status of your APCI in your bios settings.

[AndrewLubinus89]

I had that problem before I got acpi working as well....reboot would work fine but shutdown would just hang after it said "power down"

[satimis]

Originally posted by JohnT
You would probably find more up to date responses to your FreeBSD questions HERE (http://www.freebsdforums.org/)

Check the status of your APCI in your bios settings.
Hi JohnT,

Tks for your link. I am also subscribing there.

There is another interesting URL
http://evilcommandline.com/main.htm

B.R.
satimis