Re: U2 won't restart

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage peaknet net>]

> 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
> >             ** Bob Costas for Baseball Commissioner **

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 18:38 -0500, Chris Vanhoof wrote:
> Might want to try booting with reboot=k -- I have had some luck with 
> that option on various hardware.
> 
> --chris

Chris,

Good idea, but no joy. You were on the right track, though, because
setting acpi=off enables a normal reboot. Thanks.

-- 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
            ** Bob Costas for Baseball Commissioner **