passing boot parameters
 

Hello,

My Jessie install hangs at shut down or reboot. I found the following instructions that may help:

http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2009/...-and-restarts/

The only problem is, I don't know how to pass parameters "at the time of boot" despite Google research. Help much appreciated.

Thanks,

u0

I figured out how to pass the parameters to Grub no luck. I have a Dell XPS amd64 and when I try different commands such as init 0, init 6, halt or reboot, the screen goes black and just hangs. I have to then do a hard stop (holding the power button down) and then manually restarting. Any ideas as to what's happening?

Thanks,

u0

It's perhaps because of ACPI power issues.

Thanks for the response. Not sure how I would begin to troubleshoot an ACPI issue. Can you point me in the right direction? I'd like to think this is a resolvable issue but am frustrated with the lack of info out there.

Thanks,

u0

Okay. I've found a few articles with HOWTOs. I'll give them a shot tonight and post results.

I added acpi=off to the grub line beginning with "Linux" This worked (could reboot) but screwed up graphics and boot and login time. This making me a little crazy.

-u0

Can you give us a little more information?
what video card are you using? that can sometimes cause the problems you've mentioned.

Aslo in Jessie uses systemd for boot so the init 0 and 6 won't work with that.

I can't be bothered retyping this:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=577205#p577205