On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 09:23:18AM +0000, Ivo Mencke wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed redhat 9 on a dell 6450, but it wont reboot! it says > something like this: > > > please stand by while rebooting the system.. > flushing devices.. sda sdb sdc sdd > restarting system... > > > > and then it just hangs there! even with reboot -f it just hangs > at first i thought it was the software raid so i got rid of that, i > tried different kernels, no joy. i tried swapping the disks into another > system but that didnt work. I dont think its the bios, or anything > hardware related. I've looked through all the halt scripts for days now > but to be honest im baffled, ive never seen linux do this before. > > has anybody seen this problem before? > > any help would be greatly appreciated (this system has to be put into > production asap) > > thank you, > > ivo mencke. ---end quoted text--- Instead of reboot, try shutdown -r now jay -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list