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by **Feng Tia** » Sun, 23 Dec 2001 02:14:30

Hi,

I have the following problem with Redhat 7.2
When I try to shutdown (power off) the system
using the shutdown from the login window, my
machine always get rebooted.

I have tried 'shutdown -h now' as root. The
machine is rebooted too.

There is no problem with shutdown from Win 2000.
I am using AMD Athlon.

Any suggestion on what is wrong?

Thanks.

Feng

by **Igo** » Sat, 05 Jan 2002 05:31:29

> I have the following problem with Redhat 7.2
> When I try to shutdown (power off) the system
> using the shutdown from the login window, my
> machine always get rebooted.

> I have tried 'shutdown -h now' as root. The
> machine is rebooted too.

> There is no problem with shutdown from Win 2000.
> I am using AMD Athlon.

> Any suggestion on what is wrong?

I have exactly the opposite problem: shutdown -h works fine but
shutdown -r gets me to "Restarting the system" message and dies.
After that I have to press reboot button manually. Windows 2000 shuts down
and reboots without any problem. Once out of maybe 30 attemps Linux also
rebooted fine.

I have: dual CPU 1.8 Ghz Athlon, 1Gb of Ram, two 60Gb IDE drives,
first drive is entirely under Windows 2000, second drive is entirely under
Redhat 7.2 Linux. I use Windows boot loader to call grub.
I tried the following kernels: vmlinuz-2.4.7-10smp,
vmlinuz-2.4.9-13smp, vmlinuz-2.4.9-13 and had the same problem.
I tried to boot from floppy and then, when inside Linux,
do "shutdown -r now". Same story. So I do not think grub or
windows boot loader are to blame.

Since Linux did reboot correctly once, my guess is that it is a hardware
problem: loose cable or overheating.

Any other ideas?

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Redhat 7.2 Cannot shutdown, always reboot.

Redhat 7.2 Cannot shutdown, always reboot.

Redhat 7.2 Cannot shutdown, always reboot.