reboot hangs at Uptime:

[Sten Spans]

On Sun, 29 May 2005, Richard Tector wrote:

> Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
>
>> I still have the problem that my machine cannot be rebooted remotedly.
>> 
>> Doing a reboot command or typing CTRL-ALT-DEL shuts down the machine
>> but it then gives:
>> 
>> umount of /dev failed (BUSY)
>> Uptime: 2m2s
>> 
>> and then nothing. The computer sits there. Motherboard is an ASROCK
>> if that matters. 
>
> I've had a similar problem for a while on a dual P3 Gateway branded Asus 
> CUR-DLS motherboard but never really looked into it much. At the time I tried 
> both with and without the ACPI module loaded; reboots are not possible. The 
> machine hangs just after printing something like cpu0: reset()
> A basic shutdown -p now works fine and powers the machine off. Issuing 
> reboot/shutdown -r now however results in the above behaviour. The system has 
> tracked HEAD for a few months and the problem has existed as long as I can 
> remember.
>
> The machine is currently running the latest BIOS released by Gateway. I 
> didn't fancy trying the newer BIOS's from Asus. I've attached a copy of the 
> boot dmesg. If there's any other information that might be of help I can 
> supply that.

Try turning on usb in the bios (even if you don't have usb in the kernel),
this solved my reboot issues with supermicro serverworks p3 motherboards.

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Sten Spans

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