FreeBSD 7.1 reboot issue

[gentoobob]

I just installed FreeBSD 7.1 on a custom system with a

Asus P5P800-VM motherboard

Install was smooth and everything was detected.

However, I have a problem rebooting. I can run the command

# shutdown -p now

just fine, but if i want to just reboot, it will go thru the shutdown process and then halt at "restart..." and does nothing.

I have made every adjustment possible to the BIOS for ACPI/Power management, still reboot just hangs.

Any ideas?

And if you ask why I'm using FreeBSD 7.1 and not 8 its because 7.1 is being support longer.

 

[SirDice]

And if you ask why I'm using FreeBSD 7.1 and not 8 its because 7.1 is being support longer.

I would have picked 7.2

 

[gentoobob]

The FreeBSD Security Team currently plans to support FreeBSD 7.2 until May 31st, 2010 - http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/announce.html

I did install that first before I noticed the support length and it did the same as well with rebooting.

 

[gentoobob]

I looked again at my dmesg... this is what im getting...

sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest Invalid Argument C1

I wonder if this has to do with anything? hmmmm

 

[aragon]

Have a look in acpi(4) at sysctl variables hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot and hw.acpi.handle_reboot. Changing these might help you.

 

[gentoobob]

hey thanks, i already tried that too, i saw that earlier today, came home and gave it a try for about an hour. nothing seems to be working. ive did every combination of anything for the longest. It just might be a ACPI/BIOS conflict with FreeBSD 7 series. 7.2 did it also. I havent tried 8, guess i could. I usually like to wait 4 to 6 months before switching to get most of the bugs worked out.

thanks for your guys help.

 

[Beastie]

You don't have to install 8.0. Just try a livefs. But anyway, it's very stable.

Have you tried upgrading your BIOS firmware?

Have you noticed in the Boot Loader Menu, if you get "Boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled" or "Boot FreeBSD with ACPI enabled"?
It's possible your BIOS is blacklisted (happens when ACPI is badly implemented and force-disabled). Add hint.acpi.0.disabled=0 to /boot/loader.conf if that's the case.