Marcus O. White wrote: >>>Have a poke through >>> >>>dmesg | less >>> >>>looking for errors during the kernel boot - especially regarding the >>>BIOS - for clues. >>dmesg. Here are the shutdown messages: I actually meant during the boot action. Usually these problems are to do with ACPI or APM as you initially tried and are sensitive to kernel versions too, maybe worth trying a later kernel from here: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/i386/ > The system hangs on the reboot (/sbin/halt) command. Could this problem > be related to the chipset? I upgraded a Dell 9100 laptop from FC3 to FC4 > also using the yum procedure and it reboots and shuts down normally. The > problem system uses a SOYO SY-P4VGM motherboard. I've tried selinux=0 on > the boot line to eliminated selinux as the culprit. Can it be some BIOS-related problem on this cheapo motherboard? Are there any BIOS settings to tweak? BIOS updates? -Andy
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