On Friday 05 September 2008 20:21:46 Bjørn Tore Sund wrote: > 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 I'll try that first thing tomorrow morning and let you know what happens. Thank's Tony > -- > 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
