System will not reboot

From: Olav (betenoire_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 12/30/04

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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 20:00:04 +0100

    Hi,

    Today I have taken out two IDE harddisks (RAID1 set with Sarge installed
    on them) from computer A and put them in computer B. Both A and B are
    older machines, with exactly the same CPUs. A has more RAM (256 MB) than
    B (96 MB), but that does not seem to make much of a difference. After
    plugging both disks in the system B boots fine as far as I can tell, I
    had to fiddle with the network settings and it's working nicely now. To
    my pleasant surprise, I might add.

    My only problem (so far) is that computer B would not reboot upon
    issueing the reboot command. It never had this problem when it was still
    running Woody (from a single disk). Now the system will terminate all
    daemons, shut down networking, unmount disks etc. - then the screen goes
    black and the system stalls indefinitely. I can't find anything in the
    logs that I recognize as being related to the problem.

    Extra bonus problem: I am now 50 km away from this computer and will not
    be able to go there in three or four days (shop closed). I can control
    the box by VPN, but I fear doing anything that would require a reboot
    before I'm convinced it will work... I'm just glad that the thing does
    not have to do anything critical just yet.

    So, what would you do? :)

    (apart from waiting a few days, drive up there and reinstall from
    scratch)

    Can I force Sarge to rescan all hardware? What would be clever
    diagnostics in this case? 

    -- 
Met vriendelijke groet,
Olav.
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