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Hi there.

I am having a problem with a number of machines that my company has
bought.  After installing RedHat and Linux attempts to reboot itself,
the reboot fails.  It unmounts the system and gets to the line right
before the reboot should occur, but then it freezes and the reboot
never occurs.

Rebooting manually results in a perfectly valid Linux installation.
However, issuing the "reboot" or "shutdown" commands result in the same
failure ...

It is pretty important that I find a solution this because we will need
the capability to reboot the machine remotely.

As a test, I booted from a DOS disk and ran a "reboot" command that I
downloaded from the old Simtel archives... It worked fine.

As an additional test, I tried booting the computer using Slackware
boot disks and issuing its "reboot" command... This failed just like
RedHat, so it is definitely something about Linux.

The systems have dual Pentium II 450Mhz, 256 MB RAM, AMI BIOS, Adaptec
SCSI cards.  Also, the CPUs are on cards, not on the "main" board.

Thanks for any help,

-Will Hatcher

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Firstly, you really shouldn't use reboot to reboot the system, secondly - are
you using shutdown -r now?

Quote:>The systems have dual Pentium II 450Mhz, 256 MB RAM, AMI BIOS, Adaptec
>SCSI cards.  Also, the CPUs are on cards, not on the "main" board.

I see from the above statement that you are new to pentium IIs...  TTYL!

I have tried "shutdown -r now" as well and it doesn't work either.

I can see from my description why you thought I was confused about the
Pentium IIs.  We have "CPU Cards" I think is the term.  Basically the
cpus, RAM, i/o, etc. are on a card that plugs into a backplane.  It is
a modified CS500 rack-mount machine.

Thanks,
Will

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