Re: Patch: linux-2.5.42/kernel/sys.c - warm reboot should not suspend devices

Andries Brouwer
2002-10-13T22:46:33Z

On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:24:26PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:

> linux-2.5.42 had an annoying new behavior. When I would
> try to do a warm reboot, it would spin down the hard drives, which
> just made the reboot take longer and gave the impression that a
> halt or poweroff was in progress.

Yes. In my case worse than annoying:
The drives spin down, but have not yet completed spindown when
the machine is started again. LILO fails (prints a single 's'
where I would have expected "uncompressing kernel" and dies).
Pressing reset results in a strange garbled BIOS screen, and a hang.
After a power cycle all is well again.

So, my hardware is very unhappy with the new 2.5.42 behaviour.

Andries

[2.5.33 works for me, but no later kernel does.]