Re: U2 won't restart

[Chris Vanhoof <vanhoof redhat com>]

Might want to try booting with reboot=k -- I have had some luck with 
that option on various hardware.

--chris

Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> I'm putting together a small RHEL4/ESu2 box with an MSI K8MM-V mobo,
> Sempron, 512M RAM, and 40GB SATA as a primary nameserver for a client.
> It will replace an ancient RHAS2.1 box that finally crumped. A minimal
> (GNOME, SSH, BIND) installation was uneventful, but the system stalls
> whenever I init 6 it:
>
>         Please stand by while rebooting the system...
>         md: stopping all md devices.
>         md: md0 switched to read-only mode.
>         Restarting system.
>
> At this point it must be power cycled to recover -- not good for a
> system that must be administered remotely :-( . The system is running
> off-line with the stock 2.6.9-22.EL kernel and will probably need a few
> errata updates when it goes on-line in its new home this weekend.
>
> I've set up several RHEL4 systems but haven't encountered this behavior
> before. Anybody have any ideas/suggestions?
>
> -- Doc
> Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
> Fedora Core 4 kernel 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 on a P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
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