Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 11.0 on Dell Precision 490: Reboot problems

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Bernd Nies <listuser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We noticed that some of our Dell Precision 490 workstations do not power
cycle with openSUSE 11.0. When typing "reboot" it halts but does not
poweroff or reboot. One has to manually press the power button.
The 490 workstations had BIOS A06 installed, but an update to A08 did not
help. Other 490 workstations that worked fine previously had BIOS A00.

Are these dual processor(not just dual core)?

We're preparing a migration from Suse 10.1 to openSUSE 11.0 and during the
Autyast installation the system should boot 4 times.

Actually, you shouldn't need a reboot. I've installed on a Core2
system and when it says it will reboot, kexec kicks in and restarts
with the new kernel without rebooting. Only after a kernel update
should a reboot be neccessary.

Are there any known issues about this or does someone have have a clue? I
didn't find something in the BIOS settings.

I had a problem with my Precision 610(Dual P3/Xeon 500) where it
wouldn't turn off the machine. I ended up having to clear the CMOS,
and then it worked afterwards.

ACPI should have corrected this, but it could be a bug.

Look here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/220820

If you add:

reboot=p

to the boot command, then it seems to reboot ok. This was for uBuntu
32bit tho. Are you doing 32 or 64bit?

I own several Precision machines. Not bad machines. Solid and reliable.
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