[ILUG] RH7.0 or RH 7.1 and Dell Poweredge 1300's

[Paul McConnell]

nothing helpfull

the symptoms are identical to 
http://www.redhat.com/support/alex/216.html
unfortunately the solution isn't



-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin McCullagh [mailto:gavin at fiachra.ucd.ie]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 11:30 AM
To: Paul McConnell
Cc: 'ilug at linux.ie'
Subject: Re: [ILUG] RH7.0 or RH 7.1 and Dell Poweredge 1300's



Sorry, wrong end of the stick. It freezes before managing to shutdown at
all, right?

Are there not any messages about the shutdown progress eg on tty1?

Gavin

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Paul McConnell wrote:

> it freezes on reboot
> 
> if you do a shutdown -r it goes through the normal routine and says
> "Restarting system." but instead of rebooting and jumping back to the bios
> it just sits there.
> 
> even from a boot / root disk 
> it works normally but when you ctrl alt del to reboot the machine hangs
and
> wont accept any further input