Thanks for your experience What do you mean by 'creating a msdos partition' ?
Do you advice me to use the msdos partition table on the system disk and use a separated /boot partition for grub installer ? Pierre GINDRAUD Étudiant en école d'ingénieur année 2014-2017 Apprenti chez Orange pgindr...@gmail.com 2015-01-27 9:39 GMT+01:00 Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru>: > 27.01.2015 10:48, Pierre GINDRAUD wrote: > > Hello evryone, > > > > I'm not sure that is the best mailing list to expose my problem, but I > try anyway > > > > I've bought recently, an motherboard in order to make a simple server in > my home, the model is a ASROCK Q2900 ITX (see documentation below) > > http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q2900-ITX/ > > > > My problem occur when I reboot the MB. > > If I turn off (shutdown -h now) and push physically the power button it > successfully restart > > But if I type `reboot` the MB turn off but doesn't power on, the boot > freeze just after showing POST screen of the bios. > > > > During my test, I've try to put "acpi=off" option to kernel and the > reboot problem disappear, but this time it's the shutdown process which is > impacted. When I type shutdown the system succesfully halt but the MB > doesn't physically poweroff > > > > Can anyone already had a similar problem ? > > I had very similar problem with my intel D2500CC board (also mini-itx), > and before > with similar (also intel) boards with prev-gen Atom CPUs. In all these > cases the > prob was a bug in bios and were fixed by updating the bios. Intel had a > fix for > prev-gen atom and the same bug on D2500CC which they fixed later, so I had > to live > with reboot probs for a while. > > In my case the bug was possible to work around by creating an ms-dos > bootable > partition on the hdd. > > That all to say: the chances are very high that this is a prob in bios. > There's > still a small chance that it is in linux (in kernel in this case), but if > that's > the case, debugging it will be quite difficult. > > Thanks, > > /mjt >
