Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] reboot freezes

[Dan Halbert]

Ken Teh wrote:
I just installed SL4.4 on an Athlon 64 machine with a ASUS M2NPV-VM 
motherboard.  Shutdown works.  The machine powers off.  But, restart 
freezes.  Bad hardware or is it some new-fangled power on/off/reset 
standard the hardware folks are foisting on us?

Do you mean that a cold boot (from power off) works, but a warm reboot 
doesn't? Try turning off cpuspeed:
 # service cpuspeed off
and then try again (starting with a cold boot). We saw this with an 
Opteron board.

Dan