Just another idea to throw out, what kind of bios is this? Is it a phoenix or award, etc, I know that phoenix bios's has option for keyboardless operation as well as mouse also, but they are disabled by default, so enable it , if that option is there, so it may not be an os problem, Award bios's may or may not have it, but I am positive the phoenix bios has that option. Mike
Alan Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Last week, $WORK bought three PC's from our friends at Intrex. They have Intel Celeron 326 (2.5GHz Celeron D) processors on Via PM8M2-V motherboards (Via P4M800 + VT8237 chipset). <-- That sentence does not mean anything to me, but maybe it does to you? We installed Debian Stable on all three of them, and everything seems to run OK. But they don't reboot! When I type 'reboot', they go through the normal shutdown procedure, and the last thing I see on the monitor is: Rebooting... Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sdb: Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sda: Restarting system. But it stops there... it does not actually reboot. Some miscellaneous factoids: - All of this is with the keyboard unplugged. - There is a setting in the BIOS to change the "ACPI standby state" to either S3(STR) or S1(POS). - I *have* seen it reboot once or twice, with the keyboard plugged in and the BIOS set to S3 (I think, I am trying lots of combinations today). - I tried "reboot=c", "reboot=h", "reboot="w", and "reboot=b" on the kernel command line. - "shutdown" seems to work just fine. - I did call Intrex, and they suggested fiddling with the S1/S3 setting, but admitted that they did not know a lot about Linux. - I tried disabling ACPI altogether in hopes that APM would take over. I would like to leave these in a room with no keyboard or monitor attached. Any ideas how I can get these little buggers to reboot (without running to $REMOTE_LOCATION and pressing the reset button)??? Alan -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
