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, > > Torben _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech > mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
