Ubuntu won't restart

[Kleborp]

There's an easier fix for this, after looking at the patch and related code I found the following comment:

Thank-you and well done Kleborp!
A very nice fix until the Ubuntu kernel is patched. Have you submitted the bug fix to them yet?

I don't think this is worth a bug fix, it's not really a bug on Ubuntu's (or any other distro's) end, but more upstream (kernel developers), and I think someone already submitted the above patch to their mailling list so hopefully the next kernel release has the patch added.

[Xtrmrider]

Great!!
Work just perfectly with my debian 5.03
Easy to fix. Just wnat to say congratulation...

[madgrt]

The issue is now fixed by default with Karmic.

[hackeron]

I have a 2.0ghz FitPC2 and just bought a 1.1ghz FitPC2. The 2.0ghz one works beautifully, the 1.1ghz version won't reboot. I tried the 'reboot=b' solution on Ubuntu 11.04 - no go

Any suggestions?

[gurpal2000]

confirmed reboot=b doesn't work in 11.04 server for 1.1ghz fitpc2

what might be the non-obvious difference between the 1.1 and 2 ghz models?

any ideas anyone other recompilation. i think if kernel updates happen then we have to rebuild it every time right?

[prj]

Do the units have the same BIOS version?

[gurpal2000]

well my 1.1ghz model is the latest version as per the fit website (bios date may 2010).

if the bios is the issue then why doesn't the firm release a bios fix ???

[prj]

I'm not saying it is the BIOS, but since we're asking to reboot through BIOS/ACPI it is a good place to start looking. Matthew Garrett has an interesting blog post about rebooting.

Fixing the BIOS is unfortunately non-trivial.

[gurpal2000]

ok will read. BTW there's another post in the 11.04 sub-forum (http://www.fit-pc2.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=2369) where someone says installing the desktop (kernel?) version makes things work...hmm.