I have the same problem using 8.2. I asked a similar question a few weeks back and the consensus seems to be a motherboard issue. I am using the Tyan S1598 Trinity MB. Fortunately mine will reboot. So I reboot into Win98 and shutdown that way. M9.0 will not load.
Gary On Friday 13 December 2002 10:49 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Hardware - Shuttle motherboard > 384 megs ram > AMD Athlon 900 cpu > Nvidia Geforce 2/64 megs ram > SoundBlaster Xgamer Live sound card > Adaptec 2930 SCSI card > WinTV tuner card > Linksys network card > Toshiba DVD (scsi) > Plextor CDRW (scsi) > Iomega Zip internal/IDE > > This hardware configuration ran very well (small issues - easily resolved) > with versions 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 of Mandrake > > Version 9.0 - installed cleanly (apparently) then refused to bootup, always > hanging at checking module dependencies. > > Dennis suggested passing "linux noapic" - did that - apparently worked - was > finally able to get to a desktop. Added "noapic" to /etc/lilo.conf. Ran > /sbin/lilo. Rebooted - worked -next reboot did not work - finally worked by > picking the non-fb option. > > I say rebooted. When I say rebooted, I mean manually reaching over and > pressing the reset button or power switch because it will not shutdown or > reboot otherwise. As root or normal user, if I try any combination of: > > shutdown -r now > shutdown -h now > halt <ditto> > powerdown <ditto> > > It starts to shutdown, gets as far as: > > sending all processes the TERM signal <OK> > sending all processes the KILL signal... > > Never get an okay there, and thats where it hangs. Forever. Needless to say, > when I manually restart - the OS is not happy. > > Please offer suggestions - v8.2 worked great here - didn't have near this much > trouble. I'm using the 3 CD download set, purchased from LinuxCentral. I > don't believe its the disks - same disks installled fautlessly on my sons > computer which is 3 years old (mine is only about a year - go figure!). > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > > /\ > Dark< >Lord > \/ > > >
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