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

Wed Jan 24 04:43:57 UTC 2007
toracat <toracat at adelphia.net>

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:02:23 -0500, nethub-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w 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.

I am having exactly the same problem.  It is probably a similar
motherboard (DFI, but cannot check right now).  I recently converted this
box from FC4 to CentOS4.4.  If I am not mistaken, it did not have the
shutdown issue when FC4 was running.

Akemi