On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:35 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: > Thomas J. Baker wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 16:47 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: > >> Thomas J. Baker wrote: > >>> I've got a Precision 490 that hangs at reboot unless I use reboot=bios > >>> on the kernel command line. A bug filed against the kernel should > >>> include what other information? > >> I might suggest looking for a BIOS update and/or downgrade before you > >> file any bugs. I've got a Precision 490 here that reboots just peachy. > >> Dell actually has bios updates that can be done from Linux on these boxes. > >> > > > > I'm running the latest BIOS as it was shipped with the machine. I'd > > rather use reboot=bios than run an old BIOS. > > Sorry, I was suggesting it more as a "see if this is a bios issue and > not a kernel issue" than "fix it by running an old bios". Did you see > Roland's note about his own 490? He said his only fails to reboot when > running an i386 kernel, but works fine w/an x86_64 kernel, which doesn't > conflict with what I've seen, since mine's also running an x86_64 > kernel. He also mentioned that this started sometime between 2.6.22 and > 2.6.23. If you are indeed running a 32-bit kernel, it sounds like an > i686-specific kernel bug. > Yes, I did and I should have added that the system has an i386 F8 installation so it does look to be an i686 kernel problem. I don't really want to run an x86_64 kernel on this system as the eventual user doesn't really have a need for it. I'll update the bug. He also said A04 had the same problem so it would seem A05 probably wouldn't help much. Thanks, tjb -- ======================================================================= | Thomas Baker email: tjb@xxxxxxx | | Systems Programmer | | Research Computing Center voice: (603) 862-4490 | | University of New Hampshire fax: (603) 862-1761 | | 332 Morse Hall | | Durham, NH 03824 USA http://wintermute.sr.unh.edu/~tjb | ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
