Topic: Hanging Reboot

[steever]

Hi guys.  I'm wondering if anyone can help me.  I am setting up a new server with SME7 and it works fine except for one thing.  When I tell it to reboot (either through the admin panel or even through the command line), it goes through all the shutdown steps and then just sits there until I manually power off.  Shutting down through the panel or the command line works fine, but telling it to reboot causes it to hang.

Does anyone know a fix for this?

[icpix]

Experiment some with the BIOS settings (ACPI etc)?

[steever]

Solved!

Nineteen hours of research and 75 failed reboots later:

all I had to do was append reboot=b to the kernel lines in menu.lst in /boot/grub

 

[addodge]

I have one server that does the same thing.  Would you care to fill us dumb ones in on what this actually does?  and exactly where to put this line of code?
Thanks
Andy

[steever]

The only information I read about it was that it rebooted linux in a different way.  You have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Just put a space at the end of the kernel options, and type in reboot=b

I hope it fixes your problem.

Steve

PS. Andy is my son's name.