I'm setting up a Shuttle SX79R5 Mini-PC as a FreeBSD server. I observe the following irritating behavior with FreeBSD 12.x and 13.0-RCx: After a shutdown of FreeBSD (ACPI-triggered, or by running
I've updated the BIOS/EFI to the latest available version and tweaked all sorts of settings, but the 'involuntary reboots' persist. Here's the thing, though: It didn't happen with either the original Windows installation or a Linux live system. Also, the power-off button works as expected when FreeBSD is not running (e.g. in the EFI interface, or in the bootloader).
So it would seem that this hardware phenomenon is somehow connected to the FreeBSD kernel. Is anyone familiar with such a behavior?
shutdown -p now
), the motherboard turns off for about 3 to 5 seconds, and then boots up again.I've updated the BIOS/EFI to the latest available version and tweaked all sorts of settings, but the 'involuntary reboots' persist. Here's the thing, though: It didn't happen with either the original Windows installation or a Linux live system. Also, the power-off button works as expected when FreeBSD is not running (e.g. in the EFI interface, or in the bootloader).
So it would seem that this hardware phenomenon is somehow connected to the FreeBSD kernel. Is anyone familiar with such a behavior?