Hi Torben,

The Reboot hang is know issue and is a BIOS software issue, have been 
seen with Linux and OpenBSD although FreeBSD is fine, will be fixed in 
the next release.


Best Regards,


Soren Kristensen

CEO & Chief Engineer
Soekris Engineering, Inc.



Torben Frey wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> I got my 6501 in its case on Saturday and it seems to run fine so
> far, although the USB connector JP5 seems to have been crushed
> severely (its plastic cover is broken away on all sides and the metal
> has been squeezed a bit). Since I will not be using it anyway and the
> rest looked fine, I will deal with that.
>
> I am running an Intel SSD 320 series drive connected to SATA0 where I
> have successfully created 4 partitions and copied a Debian Squeeze
> 32bit to. I had this running on an Alix board before. For installing
> I used PXE booting of a net boot GRML - all went perfectly fine.
> While the system is up it seems to be running stable.
>
> The only issue is that I cannot reboot the system completely. Neither
> GRML (Linux 2.6.38) nor my own Squeeze (2.6.32) would reboot, they
> BOTH hang in the BIOS POST messages showing
>
> 012345
>
> and then nothing. After a power cycle it is normally showing
> something like
>
> 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqr,,,tuvwxyz
>
> or so, but on every software reboot it hangs after the "5".
>
> Do I need special boot options to make a software issued reboot work?
> Or will this be fixed in a future BIOS? I know the BIOS is not in its
> finished state, but I have no idea if the reboot problem is a BIOS
> problem or more H/W related?
>
> My (current but not permanent) solutions to finish a reboot is to go
> into the uManager by typing "+++" in the serial console, then typing
> "power cycle". That works.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>
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