From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 Description of problem: Rebooting under Redhat 7.3 results in a dead keyboard and mouse.It is necessary to turn off the power and boot from cold start to regain control.System is a Soyo SY-5SSM motherboard,AMD k6-2 500mz, Sis 530 chipset Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.shutdown -r now on command line or text mode 2.choose logout and restart from xwindows 3. Actual Results: keyboard and mouse are dead Expected Results: system should have rebooted with keyboard and mouse availiable. Additional info:
This sounds most likely to be a bad interaction between your bios and the kernel. Are you using a PS/2 keyboard and mouse, or USB?
Summary: if system is rebooted mouse and keyboard are disabled. Mouse is a 2 button ps/2. Mouse and keyboard are generic
ok can you try adding "reboot=b" at the end of the line with "vmlinuz" in /etc/grub/grub.conf ? (and then reboot into that to take effect, and THEN see if it's fixced ;)