shutdown -r now OK, completely... shutdown -h now OK up to: system halted unmounting rd ??? then I get what looks like a stack dump of hex addresses filling the screen... This is on a fresh 'minimum' installation, because the installing process would hang if I went for much more than KDE: motherboard: spacewalker hot 597 bios: ???u - the latest one to date processor:amd k6 II 500 memory: 64Mb cards: video, 2 ethernet, sound, modem (not configured/used)
Your processor/BIOS combination is not handling the request to power down correctly. There is not much that we can do about it; it's actually crashing in the BIOS.