> > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > From: Bjørn Tore Sund <bjorn.sund@xxxxxxxxx> > > Reply-To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using > > Fedora. <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: Dell OptiPlex 745 reboot problem > > Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:21:46 +0200 > > > > 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 Ugh, I was having the same problem with my 745. So, I drug out a USB floppy and applied the latest BIOS -- going from 2.3.1 to 2.6.2 from Dell. Whoops. Starting up looks fine, all services showed OK. Gets to local, X starts and the box freezes at the spinning dots with a frozen mouse. Can't break with Ctrl-Alt-Del or Ctrl-Backspace. Hard power, restart, interactive init. Allow all, but skip local. X starts fine. rc.local contains: > #!/bin/sh > # > # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts. > # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't > # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff. > > touch /var/lock/subsys/local Reset BIOS to defaults for kicks, no change. I have a PCI Express graphics card, ATI x1300 installed. Any ideas? I guess I can revert BIOS one by one backward to see if it works. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
