2.6 kernel won't reboot on AMD system
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Before you hit 'reply', no, I'm not talking about the machine not getting past the BIOS check complaining that there is no keyboard present.
Kernel 2.6.7
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
motherboard: http://www.ecsusa.com/products/km400-m2.html
... not sure what else might be useful... apci=off added to boot options. Preemptive kernel.
In any case, the machine in question does not reboot. I traced the problem down to the mach_reboot but it doesn't get past those assembly instructions. Things do seem to work alright if a keyboard is installed. Otherwise, the machine just sits there, no longer responsive to pings or anything else.
This appears to be a somewhat common problem, as I found several other posters discussing it:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/3/12/248
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108868695814658&w=2
any ideas on what parts of the kernel to look at in order to determine what is causing this?
Thankyou,
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