[TriLUG] 'reboot' doesn't

[Brian Henning]

Check that the ACPI or APM kernel modules are loaded, or that support is 
compiled into the kernel..  Honestly I don't know if the stock kernel 
has it compiled in or as a module.

Elaborate on 'shutdown' working fine.  Do you mean 'shutdown -h' or 
'shutdown -r'?  If 'shutdown -r' works fine, can you resort to using 
that instead of 'reboot' or is it a question of scripts that rely on 
'reboot' (of course, why one would want any script to automatically 
reboot a server is beyond me)?

~B


Alan Porter wrote:
> Last week, $WORK bought three PC's from our friends
> at Intrex.  They have Intel Celeron 326 (2.5GHz
> Celeron D) processors on Via PM8M2-V motherboards
> (Via P4M800 + VT8237 chipset).  <-- That sentence
> does not mean anything to me, but maybe it does to
> you?
> 
> We installed Debian Stable on all three of them, and
> everything seems to run OK.  But they don't reboot!
> When I type 'reboot', they go through the normal
> shutdown procedure, and the last thing I see on the
> monitor is:
> 
>    Rebooting...
>    Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sdb:
>    Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sda:
>    Restarting system.
> 
> But it stops there... it does not actually reboot.
> 
> Some miscellaneous factoids:
>  - All of this is with the keyboard unplugged.
>  - There is a setting in the BIOS to change the "ACPI
>    standby state" to either S3(STR) or S1(POS).
>  - I *have* seen it reboot once or twice, with the
>    keyboard plugged in and the BIOS set to S3 (I think,
>    I am trying lots of combinations today).
>  - I tried "reboot=c", "reboot=h", "reboot="w", and
>    "reboot=b" on the kernel command line.
>  - "shutdown" seems to work just fine.
>  - I did call Intrex, and they suggested fiddling with
>    the S1/S3 setting, but admitted that they did not
>    know a lot about Linux.
>  - I tried disabling ACPI altogether in hopes that APM
>    would take over.
> 
> I would like to leave these in a room with no keyboard
> or monitor attached.
> 
> Any ideas how I can get these little buggers to reboot
> (without running to $REMOTE_LOCATION and pressing the
> reset button)???
> 
> 
> Alan
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