Dell OptiPlex 745 reboot problem

[Tony Molloy]

On Friday 05 September 2008 20:21:46 Bjørn Tore Sund wrote:
> Tony Molloy wrote:
> > On Friday 05 September 2008 16:05:04 Mike McCarty wrote:
> > > Tony Molloy wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I've just installed Fedora-9 on a lab of Dell OptiPlex 745 (SFF)
> > > > machines. ( only in 1 lab TG )
> > > >
> > > > After running firstboot when I went to reboot the machines they just
> > > > hang and I had to do a hard reboot. I thought this was a minor glitch
> > > > and ignored it.
> > > >
> > > > Now however when the machines boot into Fedora-9 the "reboot" and
> > > > "suspend" buttons do not work. The windowing system just shuts down
> > > > and I get a text prompt and the machines just hang there.
> > >
> > > Hang? That's a vague term. If you type on the keyboard, do characters
> > > get echoed? If you have a text prompt, then can you not do a
> >
> > Hang means exactly what it means. The machines just go dead!!! No input
> > from the keyboard accepted. Only thing to do is a hard reboot.
>
> Got tons of Dell Optiplex 7XX, had that exact problem.  Solution is
> two-step:
> 1. Flash up the bios.  The ones they're shipped with suck bigtime.
> 2. Add the kernel parameter "reboot=bios" to all kernel lines in
> /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> Solved it for us.
>
> -BT

I'll try that first thing tomorrow morning and let you know what happens.

Thank's

Tony


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