[CentOS] CentOs 7.0 and reboot failure

Sun Nov 23 20:02:17 UTC 2014
Edward M <edwardm5000 at gmail.com>

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.