On 28/03/12 12:24, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Maybe somebody can suggest a fix: > > I have an old tower machine - a homebrew that I use as a sandbox. Just > loaded it up with a copy of squeeze, and a xen installation - works > fine, but... > - shutdown -h works just fine > - reboot goes down, gives the console message "restarting system", then > hangs > > On an earlier installation (Lenny, x86 install) adding "reboot=bios" > solved the problem. This time around - 64bit image (amd64), squeeze, > none of the reboot=[....] parameters seem to make a difference. (I note > that the Debian installer documentation indicates that reboot=bios only > works with x86). > > Any suggestions? Any configuration things I should try to uncover that > might help find a solution (I don't have paperwork on the box, anymore - > so it's going to be a matter of running various probes to figure out > what's on the motherboard and such - suggested commands welcome.) > > Thanks! > > Miles Fidelman >
I suspect you've already thought of this but... could it be an ACPI problem? I use a number of older machines for development - some require acpi=force to shutdown properly or they just hang at the last stage of halt. Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Iceape/IE extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f72711d.8080...@gmail.com
