CentOS - Apr 2006 - Warm reboot failure

I recently bought a new Compaq Presario sr1710nx with 64-bit Sempron  
and last week installed Centos 4.3 64-bit on it.

Worked like a champ until I attempted a reboot (using "init 6") and  
the computer hung after finishing the shutdown. Rebooting from cold  
worked, but without a warm reboot I was hesitant to use Centos. Since  
FC5 (64-bit as well) came out recently, I tried it and warm reboots  
work great.

So it would seem that it is a kernel/driver issue, but I have no idea  
where to begin. Also I'm not if additional grub boot parameters might  
help.

I won't be in front of the machine until this weekend, but since  
everyone else will be gone by them, I'd thought I'd ask you guys if  
you had any ideas. I really would like to get back the package  
stability of Centos. Fedora 5's updates are driving me nuts (too  
many, too often and too major).

Any suggestions? (I'm going to try 32-bit Centos this weekend first)

Thanks ahead of time,
Tarun

I've found that Centos doesn't support the ATI RS480 chipset very  
well and that is causing the reboot issues. With too many things  
(DAG, jpackage, etc) not available for FC5, I've just decided to run  
FC4. The initial release has the same problems as Centos, but more  
recent kernels fix those issues.

I guess the only other thing that I could have tried would have been  
to recompile that kernel for Centos, but that was just too much to do...

Tarun


On Apr 7, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Tarun Reddy wrote:
> I recently bought a new Compaq Presario sr1710nx with 64-bit  
> Sempron and last week installed Centos 4.3 64-bit on it.
>
> Worked like a champ until I attempted a reboot (using "init 6")
and
> the computer hung after finishing the shutdown. Rebooting from cold  
> worked, but without a warm reboot I was hesitant to use Centos.  
> Since FC5 (64-bit as well) came out recently, I tried it and warm  
> reboots work great.
>
> So it would seem that it is a kernel/driver issue, but I have no  
> idea where to begin. Also I'm not if additional grub boot  
> parameters might help.
>
> I won't be in front of the machine until this weekend, but since  
> everyone else will be gone by them, I'd thought I'd ask you guys if
> you had any ideas. I really would like to get back the package  
> stability of Centos. Fedora 5's updates are driving me nuts (too  
> many, too often and too major).
>
> Any suggestions? (I'm going to try 32-bit Centos this weekend first)
>
> Thanks ahead of time,
> Tarun
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