Re: poweroff and reboot

[iain d broadfoot <ibroadfo@cis.strath.ac.uk>]

Dominik Juszczyk wrote:
> Hi
>
> Firstly about hardware: Sony Vaio PCG-FX215 with Debian Woody installed
>
> I have problem with reboot. When I want to reboot my laptop, it is
> rebooting, but after that it shows only Sony welcome message, and than
> stops. To make it work I have to press power button for few seconds, and
> turn it on again.
> When I want to turn it off, it shows me power down, and than I have to
> turn it of with power buton.
>
> I have compiled in APM support for BIOS, and Power Managment (kernel
> 2.4.18), I'm using lilo, but in lilo.conf I have no entries about power.
>
> Does anyone know what to do with that??

either type linux noapic at the prompt, or put the line

append="noapic"

in yer lilo.conf

the second is better, but try the first first to make sure it works.

iain

ps just thought of a third - don't reboot, poweroff... ;-)