Hardware: Dell Poweredge 1300, 256MB, Dual PIII-500, PERC-2SC RAID controller Rebooting the machine (either with "shutdown -r" or "reboot" or with ctrl-alt-del) causes the machine to hang instead of resetting. The last messages printed are: Please stand by while rebooting the system. stopping all md devices Restarting system. At this point the machine hangs, (ctrl-alt-del has no effect) and can only be restarted with manual intervention. This only happens with the -smp and -enterprise kernels. The uni-processor-only kernel functions as expected.
Can you try to use the following options as commandline options on the lilo-prompt? reboot=c reboot=h reboot=b reboot=w They change the algorithm with which the kernel tries to reboot.
Using "reboot=b" works. All of the other reboot settings fail as desacribed on this machine. I'm adding "reboot=b" to lilo.conf to make it permanent.
Could you please run the attached program on your machine and attach the output to this bug? (or mail me in private) It will give us information (eg vendor and version) about the bios you have and allows us to make "=b" the default for that specific bios in future kernels.
Created attachment 15786 [details] program to dump BIOS information
Created attachment 15787 [details] Output of the bios dump program