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#1 2007-06-13 23:45:35
- tnynyn
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System hangs at POST after reboot
I have a Dell L400 laptop (p3 700mhz 256mb 20gb hd) and have sucessfully installed arch along with xfce and a few other programs. Everytime I reboot via "reboot" cmd or through xfce, the system unmounts everything and reboots but hangs at the POST screen. I cant get into bios or the boot option menu either. I also have a stripped down windows xp installed (before arch) and i can reboot from there. any ideas on whats going on?
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#2 2007-06-13 23:47:20
- Misfit138
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Re: System hangs at POST after reboot
I believe I saw something like an issue you are describing in the wiki once about rebooting from within the xfce environment, but you are doing it from the console and it hangs?
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#3 2007-06-14 00:11:43
- tnynyn
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Re: System hangs at POST after reboot
Thanks for the quick reply. Yes it hangs from console too.
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#4 2007-06-14 15:43:46
- mac57
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Re: System hangs at POST after reboot
Hi, I have exactly the OPPOSITE problem from you. Windows won't do a warm restart - hangs after the POST. Arch WILL do a warm restart. I still haven't figured it out. I am assuming that Windows is messing up something in the hardware that mucks up the restart and Arch isn't. Since you and I have different hardware for sure, you are likely experiencing the same sort of problem, but from a different source!
In my case, a simple power cycle resolves the problem and Windows boots properly. However, it will only boot from a power on. It will never boot from a warm restart.
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