Dell Optiplex 745 - Will not reboot

Hello, and a good day to you all. I have a small problem that I can not
seem to figure out.

I have just installed Slack 12.1 on a Dell Optiplex 745 Desktop. The
box is all stock, but with a 4Gig ram upgrade.

The install went fine, and Slack is working properly. My problem is
when I tell the machine to reboot ( shutdown -r now ) it goes
through the process of shutting down, but gets stuck at "Restarting System."

I then have to manually power down the box, and restart it via the power
button.

This machine will soon be headless, and is intended to run inter-company
web applications & things of that nature.

Any thoughts why it freezes at "Restarting System.", or what I might do
to correct this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You Very Much!

Robert De Mars
--

A man without an answer
Is like a bird with broken wings
wrapped up in its misery
forgetting how to sing

Bob De Mars wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello, and a good day to you all. I have a small problem that I can not
> seem to figure out.
>
> I have just installed Slack 12.1 on a Dell Optiplex 745 Desktop. The
> box is all stock, but with a 4Gig ram upgrade.
>
> The install went fine, and Slack is working properly. My problem is
> when I tell the machine to reboot ( shutdown -r now ) it goes
> through the process of shutting down, but gets stuck at "Restarting
> System."[/color]

I needed 'CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y' (and related ACPI) for 12.1 to allow
normal shutdown (init 0) to actually turn power off (Asus M2A-VM board)

Also in 'CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT':
[color=blue]
> If you have an older machine (with a BIOS released prior to 2001) and it will
> not power off on shutdown, try adding this to your kernel's lilo stanza:
> append = "acpi=force"[/color]

Cheers,

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:14:01 -0500, Bob De Mars wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello, and a good day to you all. I have a small problem that I can not
> seem to figure out.
>
> I have just installed Slack 12.1 on a Dell Optiplex 745 Desktop. The
> box is all stock, but with a 4Gig ram upgrade.
>
> The install went fine, and Slack is working properly. My problem is
> when I tell the machine to reboot ( shutdown -r now ) it goes
> through the process of shutting down, but gets stuck at "Restarting
> System."
>
> I then have to manually power down the box, and restart it via the power
> button.
>
> This machine will soon be headless, and is intended to run inter-company
> web applications & things of that nature.
>
> Any thoughts why it freezes at "Restarting System.", or what I might do
> to correct this would be greatly appreciated.[/color]

Try add 'reboot=b' to boot-time kernel option(s)





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Murat D. Kadirov