Re: Unidentified subject!
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, LinuxBOX wrote:
> My Debian box hangs on boot if you don't physicaly shut it of and on. The
> reboot comand or even ctl+alt+del are a sure to crash when it reboots.
> Any sujestions?
You don't say what kind of "crash". Does it just "hang"?
A year or two ago some change to the kernel or sound drivers caused my
system to hang during a warm boot at the point where it loaded the sound
drivers.
It would boot OK if I powered off, pushed the reset button, or booted DOS
first.
My solution was to configure the system to always do a _cold_ boot.
This is done by the following line in lilo.conf:
append = "reboot=c"
...RickM...
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