Thanks for the help. I tryed that and it didn't seem to work. Perhaps if I included more information it would be easier to diagnose. If I don't physicla turn the machine off (reset doesn't work ether) it will hand on bootup. It hangs on the folowing line.
0:35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAXEREAL=8 I would apreciat any help that anyone could provide me. On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, LinuxBOX wrote: > > > My Debian box hangs on boot if you don't physicaly shut it of and on. The > > reboot comand or even ctl+alt+del are a sure to crash when it reboots. > > Any sujestions? > > You don't say what kind of "crash". Does it just "hang"? > > A year or two ago some change to the kernel or sound drivers caused my > system to hang during a warm boot at the point where it loaded the sound > drivers. > > It would boot OK if I powered off, pushed the reset button, or booted DOS > first. > > My solution was to configure the system to always do a _cold_ boot. > This is done by the following line in lilo.conf: > > append = "reboot=c" > > ...RickM... > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .