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At Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:50:42 -0400, Me-planix.ca wrote:
Subject: Re: why won't my dual PIV Xeon boxes halt when they are told to?
>=20
> Of course the ancient PPro box doesn't have a BIOS capable of doing the
> serial console redirection stuff whereas the boxes having the problem do
> both support serial console redirection and both have it enabled.....

Sadly FreeBSD-6.2 on my Asus P2B also fails to stay halted when
connected via serial console, and it doesn't have a server BIOS either.

The one obvious difference between the boxes which fail to halt and the
one which does halt is that the failing ones have their consoles set to
a rather fast speed (19200 or 38400) while the one that does halt is set
to 9600.  Perhaps the spewing of final "has halted" message is too fast
for my terminal server, which then promptly sends a ^S to try to slow
things down a bit, which the system then mis-interprets as "any key" and
thus it reboots.

Maybe I'll try to get hardware flow control to work again.....  sigh.


# halt
Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...done
Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...done
Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...
Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...0 0 done
All buffers synced.
Uptime: 10m33s
pcib0: wake_prep disabled wake for \_SB_.PCI0 (S5)
sio0: wake_prep disabled wake for \_SB_.PCI0.PX40.UAR1 (S5)
sio1: wake_prep disabled wake for \_SB_.PCI0.PX40.UAR2 (S5)
psmcpnp0: wake_prep disabled wake for \_SB_.PCI0.PX40.PS2M (S5)
uhci0: wake_prep disabled wake for \_SB_.PCI0.USB0 (S5)

The operating system has halted.
Please press any key to reboot.

Rebooting...
cpu_reset: Stopping other CPUs

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						Greg A. Woods
						Planix, Inc.

<woods@planix.com>     +1 416 489-5852 x122     http://www.planix.com/

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