Anand Kumar Kalyanasundaram wrote: > > Hi, > I have a Sony vaio (Athlon 1G) with Mandrake 8.2. My problem > is that reboot from linux does not work. I tried > "shutdown -r now" and reboot using lilo (the option in the > kdm gui). > > When I use "shutdown -r now", the laptop displays > "Sony" and it stops there (I can see the harddisk light > glowing...forever). I then need to do a hard shutdown and > the next time it starts up, it warns me that the > previous boot was incomplete. > > Can anyone tell me how to get this to work ?
I would like to know as well. what I do now on my Vaio pcg-fx215 notebook is to do a halt instead of reboot. it shuts it down fine and only takes a little longer to reboot. -- Mike McNeese Linux registered user # 248955 currently running Mandrake versions 8.0 and 8.2 "If obstacles are all we see, then we've lost sight of our goal!"
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