Re: Abrupt restarts with ACPI enabled on NetBSD-5.1.2-amd64 GENERIC Kernel

Matthias Scheler <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:49:36 +0100

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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:39:37PM +0800, Justin Smith wrote:
> I am having several issues running NetBSD-5.1.2-amd64.  With ACPI enabled
> the system restarts abruptly.

That sounds like a bug in NetBSD's ACPI code, the machine's BIOS or both.
Can you perhaps try NetBSD 6.0_BETA?

> If I disable ACPI the powerdown causes halt instead of complete shutdown.

That is too be expected without ACPI-support enabled.

	Kind regards

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