On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Markus Bergkvist <markus.bergkv...@telia.com> wrote: >> I've been using some Compaq Deskpro DPENS Pentium II machines as OpenBSD >> firewalls since late 2.x to early 3.x. Recently I made the jump to 4.8 and >> all >> seems to work fine except I noticed the reboot command does not appear to >> work. The machine gets halted, screen blanks out, but that's as far as it >> goes. I re-installed 3.3 and confirmed the reboot works fine under 3.3. >> >> Any tips/hints to help troubleshoot or resolve this problem would be >> greatly >> appreciated.
We wouldn't have to play guess the machine if you sent a dmesg, but my first approach would be to disable some combination of acpi and apm. > Do you have powerdown=YES in /etc/rc.shutdown? That has nothing to do with rebooting.