Re: Laptop does not reboot

[Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org>]

> I've deleted the remaining lines, because I think it's not relevant. As
> you can see, I played with some kernel options. Among those were:
> acpi=on/off/force/ht, apm=on/off, reboot=[cbhw],
> pci=bios/nobios/conf1/conf2/nosort/biosirq/noacpi. But whatever
> combination I tried, I never had success with rebooting the laptop. The
> only way to get a working reboot is with a kernel 2.2.x. Other 2.4.x
> kernels (x=18,20,22,24,25) always failed to reboot the machine.
>

Hi,

maybe you should also give 2.6.x a try? Well, woody is too old for that, you 
would have to upgrade to unstable (don't know if there are already backports 
or if all required stuff is also already in Sarge).


Also, have you already tried to reboot via magic-sysrq (needs to be enabled in 
kernel configuration, of course). So either <alt+print+b> or 
"echo "b" > /proc/sysrq-trigger". Of course thats not a clean reboot, but 
might be interesting for testing.

Mayby even the reboot command from the sysvinit package is too old, don't 
know. IMHO woody is too much outdated and shouldn't be used for anything 
except servers any more.


Cheers,
	Bernd


PS: Whats about giving Knoppix a try, if it works there, then its either a 
problem with too much outdated woody packages or wrong kernel configuration.


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