[CentOS] Restart Linux

Tue Feb 7 22:58:25 UTC 2006
Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, David Fletcher wrote:

> On Tuesday 07 Feb 2006 22:24, Carlos Arellano wrote:
>> I already installed a Centos 4.0 on Server.
>>
>> But when I restart the server stop and never get up again.
>>
>> The last messages are this.
>>
>> Md: stopping all md devices
>> Md: md0 switched to read only mode
>
> Have you got a keyboard plugged in? I had the same problem - it 
> would stop OK but only restart with a keyboard. Never could find out 
> why.

I have a couple systems that behave that way. The fix that worked here 
was to append 'apm=off' to the kernel parameters. E.g.,

   title CentOS (2.6.9-22.0.2.EL)
     root (hd0,0)
     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL ro root=/dev/md1 apm=off
     initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.img

To my chagrin, I've never investigated what it works...

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