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

[Dave Airlie]

you switched on APM in the BIOS? or maybe switch it off .. I'd try fecking
with APM myself... for no good reason...

Dave.

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Paul McConnell wrote:

> 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
>
>

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David Airlie, Software Engineer
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