System will not reboot

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To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
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?

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Met vriendelijke groet,
Olav.
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