[Voyage-linux] Reboot on ALIX gets stuck

[Stéphane Acounis]

Le Tue, 2 Aug 2011 23:19:45 -0700 (PDT)
Hitchcocknz <shane at longwhitecloud.com> a écrit:

> Hi there,
> 
> I have an ALIX unit in the field that reboots deliberately if certain
> conditions are meet - using "shutdown -r now".
> 
> We see it regularly "lockup", that is it shuts down but does reboot.
> It seems similar to this post early last year
> http://www.mail-archive.com/voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk/msg03759.html
> 
> Have others experienced this problem?
> 
> I realise this is probably not a Voyage distribution issue but a faint
> chance it is and I know many list members use the ALIX boards.
> 
> Kind regards
> Shane
>

Hi,

I had lockup problems during linux boot sequence on an Alix 3D2 board
and I ended with disabling the hardware watchdog (nomfgpt option on the
grub boot line).
Now it reboots fine every time.

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