On Apr 1, 2014 7:04 AM, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> I am having a strange error. I just picked up a HP Proliant G5 and
> installed NetBSD 6.1.3 AMD64 on it. Everything is fine as far as
> installing and running goes but when I reboot it goes through most of
> the stuff, detaches a bunch of devices and then says "rebooting" and
> stops. NumLock doesn't change the light and the system won't respond
> to the keyboard or the network. Luckily it has already unmounted the
> drive so I can safely power cycle but that's going to be extremely
> inconvenient in a lights out situation.
>
> Anyone ever seen this? Anyone know where to start debugging this?
>
> Attached is my dmesg.
Does it power down if you use shutdown -p?
If you use a current or 5 boot disk (or linux) does anything change?
Try to decide if it's a kernel problem or a hardware problem. A bios/firmware update might be in order. Could be an acpi bug.
Andy