Hi all,
I installed RH9 last night on my main machine (replacing winxp) and have a problem with it rebooting. as root when I do a "shutdown -r now" the system will shut down, restart with the bios but where grub should come up nothing but a blank screen does, and just sits there. Completely shutting it down and starting it up works just fine. My hardware isn't all that whacky (and all works in winxp), here's a list of the goods:

P4 2.4Ghz(B)
MSI 845 Max2 (with ata raid, but completely disabled in bios and no drives attached)
512 pc2100 ram
Geforce 4 ti 4600
audigy
adaptec aha 2940u/uw scsi card
maxtor atlasII 36.7 gb scsi drive
IBM 120gb ide drive
lite on dvd rom
memorex 52x burner

Other than the MBR (which install forced onto the ide drive), everything is installed on the scsi drive(sda). The scsi cable does have an active terminator on the end of it.

Anybody have any ideas? I really don't want to have to go back to winxp...

Thanks

Doug

You say that it hangs when GRUB should come up. Does your BIOS show that it is loading from the correct drive? Does your BIOS report any error messages? How is the boot up list in your BIOS set up? I'm curious as to why RedHat forced Grub onto the IDE drive. Did you have this setup with WinXP as well?

The only other thing I can think is that something is staying in memory on the soft reboot that is affecting the restart, but that is just a guess.

slight

No BIOS errors, evrything loads fine during that. Not sure why RH placed the mbr on the ide drive, but it didn't give another option, and winxp did the same thing. However I put xp back on and had the ide drive unplugged and it obviously placed it on the scsi drive then (I'm assuming RH will act the same when i go to put it back on). The boot order goes like this:

dvd drive
floppy
scsi drive
ide drive

But since hard resets it boots fine, I don't think the sequence matters much. I did find this link on redhat's site:

http://kb.redhat.com/view.php?eid=216

Talks about hard and soft resets in LILO. I don't know much about grub (or any other part of linux real well), but are there similar settings in grub that can be changed?

Thanks

Doug