[newbie] reboot of amd notebook

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

Re: [newbie] reboot of amd notebook

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