Tony Molloy wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2008 16:05:04 Mike McCarty wrote: > > Tony Molloy wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've just installed Fedora-9 on a lab of Dell OptiPlex 745 (SFF) > > > machines. ( only in 1 lab TG ) > > > > > > After running firstboot when I went to reboot the machines they just hang > > > and I had to do a hard reboot. I thought this was a minor glitch and > > > ignored it. > > > > > > Now however when the machines boot into Fedora-9 the "reboot" and > > > "suspend" buttons do not work. The windowing system just shuts down and I > > > get a text prompt and the machines just hang there. > > > > Hang? That's a vague term. If you type on the keyboard, do characters > > get echoed? If you have a text prompt, then can you not do a > > > > Hang means exactly what it means. The machines just go dead!!! No input from > the keyboard accepted. Only thing to do is a hard reboot. Got tons of Dell Optiplex 7XX, had that exact problem. Solution is two-step: 1. Flash up the bios. The ones they're shipped with suck bigtime. 2. Add the kernel parameter "reboot=bios" to all kernel lines in /boot/grub/menu.lst Solved it for us. -BT -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: 555-84894 Email: bjorn.sund@xxxxxxxxx IT department VIP: 81724 Support: http://bs.uib.no Univ. of Bergen When in fear and when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
