Whenever any of the following commands are run on a Toshiba Satellite 2655XDVD, the shutdown process executes correctly, but then the display blanks and the system hangs. Only way to recover is to remove power and battery. Commands: # reboot # halt # shutdown -r now # shutdown -h now
Thats kind of hard for us to do anything about, at the point it hangs the control has been handed back from Linux to the firmware, and its up to the firmware to reboot a box correctly. There are some possible workaround helpers as Linux lets you pick multiple reboot methods to try and deal with broken bioses/hardware You can do reboot=X,Y where X is hard - reboot by reset line bios - reboot by bios vector and Y is warm - warm boot, (ctrl-alt-del like) cold - cold boot (power on like) So if you boot LILO: linux reboot=bios,warm and see if that works you can hopefully find one boot sequence that doesnt trip the bugs in your laptop. The append="reboot=..." option in /etc/lilo.conf will let you set it by default by adding append="reboot=bios,warm" into lilo.conf for the Linux image Then rerun lilo Alan