On 11/23/2014 10:58 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > I have installed Centos 7.0 on my homework machine in order to take a > test drive with it, and am low on the learning curve with it at this > point. I have a small Gateway SX2855-UB12P. > > I have a critical hurdle in that when I try a reboot or when I do a > 'shutdown now -r' command the system will start a reboot process but > hangs right after the os choices are presented. > > My install process started with the server version, and I added the > gnome desktop latter. I also changed the boot level to 5. > > Has anyone else had this problem, or any suggestions as to a remedy. > > Thanks, > > Greg Ennis > > > Centos 7 runs systemd ,so may need to use 'systemctl reboot' to reboot and 'systemctl poweroff' to shutdown system. I suggest to read systemctl manpage ( towards the end) hope this helps.