System fails to reboot or poweroff following upgrade to FC4

[Marcus O. White]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 10:30 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> Marcus O. White wrote:
> 
> >>>Have a poke through
> >>>
> >>>dmesg | less
> >>>
> >>>looking for errors during the kernel boot - especially regarding the
> >>>BIOS - for clues.
> 
> >>dmesg. Here are the shutdown messages:
> 
> I actually meant during the boot action.
> 
> Usually these problems are to do with ACPI or APM as you initially tried
> and are sensitive to kernel versions too, maybe worth trying a later
> kernel from here:
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/i386/
> 
> > The system hangs on the reboot (/sbin/halt) command. Could this problem
> > be related to the chipset? I upgraded a Dell 9100 laptop from FC3 to FC4
> > also using the yum procedure and it reboots and shuts down normally. The
> > problem system uses a SOYO SY-P4VGM motherboard. I've tried selinux=0 on
> > the boot line to eliminated selinux as the culprit.
> 
> Can it be some BIOS-related problem on this cheapo motherboard?  Are
> there any BIOS settings to tweak?  BIOS updates?
> 
> -Andy
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I looked through the startup and the shutdown messages there was nothing
of significance. I had turned acpi off on bootup... I'll check on the
bios and kernel updates.

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Marcus White <1midniterider at comcast.net>
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Marcus O. White <1lnxraider at comcast.net>