[CentOS] System hangs at "Rebooting System" on VIA KM400 chipsets

Wed Jan 24 01:36:21 UTC 2007
nethub at gmail.com <nethub at gmail.com>

Forgot to mention -- this is on CentOS 4.4 i386.

Thanks.

nethub at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a number of systems running KM400 chipsets from VIA (Socket 
> A/462).  Two different models have produced the same results -- DFI 
> KM400-MLV and MSI KM4M-V.  When a /sbin/reboot or /sbin/shutdown -r 
> now is issued, the system does everything you would expect from a 
> reboot, but when it gets to Rebooting System, it hangs and requires a 
> power cycle.
>
> The logs do not indicate anything is going wrong.  It's not a kernel 
> panic.  I've tried appending "acpi=off noapic" or just "apci=off" to 
> grub.conf and neither help.  We've tested these boards extensively 
> with various CPU's, hard drives, and RAM and they show no other 
> issues, so it's not hardware defects or hardware compatibility issues.
>
> I'm not sure what is going on, but assistance would be greatly 
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
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