Rebooting but not halting. Well, that's a bummer, too. :)
But, thanks much. I'll verify this is the case with this machine and
then decide what to do next.
I was a faithful user of ASUS motherboards until very recently when they
started using Marvell LAN chips and I had to add 3COM NIC cards so that
my NFS installs work. I switched to using Intel MB's but so far the
verdict is still out. Out of 3 systems, I've had one bad one. What MBs
are folks using nowadays? I could use big outfits like Dell, but I
prefer using local vendors to assemble machines for me. By local, I
mean really local, like 5 miles away so I can beat on their doors when I
need something done quick.
Thanks again! Ken
Shannon V. Davidson wrote:
Ken Teh wrote:
cpuspeed was off. If I say 'shutdown -h now', the machines powers off
after a clean shutdown. If I say 'shutdown -r now', it brings the
machine down. The last steps are remounting md0 readonly and syncing
the SATA drives. The last line it prints on the screen is 'Restarting
system'. Then, it just sits there. I have to use the front-panel
switch to turn it off, then power it back on. Which is a bummer if
you have to reboot it remotely. Btw, the front-panel switch is one of
these new types when you have to hold it down for several seconds
before it actually powers the machine off.
I'm wondering if it's some hardware problem. It's my understanding
that a restart is basically like a push button reset. The last thing
the CPU does is pull the reset line (A20 or A21 ??) which causes the
M/B to go through its boot-up. But, now with ACPI and these smart
power supplies, I was wondering if somehow this is the cause of my
problem.
Any other suggestions?
I suspect this is an ACPI or chipset support problem which has been
fixed in a later kernel. I have a couple of computers with the same ASUS
M2NPV-VM motherboard (BIOS version 0801) and halting and rebooting works
fine under CentOS 5.0 but hangs under CentOS 4.3. However, under CentOS
4.3, if I add acpi=off to the kernel boot command line, reboot works but
not halt.
Shannon
Ken
Dan Halbert wrote:
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
