Bianca will not re-boot!

[Loves2Mint]

Bianca will shut down but just hangs when I select reboot from the quit menu. Please help.

[metapy]

Sounds like a problem with ACPI, you might want to try this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... ost1738476

[Loves2Mint]

As I stated, Bianca does shut down correctly, it just will not reboot.

[clivesay]

what do you mean by "just won't reboot"? Does it reboot but come to a command prompt instead of gui? Do you not even get the Grub screen?

A little more detail would be helpfiul.

[Loves2Mint]

Bianca looks like it is going to reboot but gets hung up at the last (2nd) Bianca GUI screen with moving dots. The dots stop moving after they have filled the bar and it just hangs.

[scorp123]

Bianca looks like it is going to reboot but gets hung up at the last (2nd) Bianca GUI screen with moving dots. The dots stop moving after they have filled the bar and it just hangs.

The system comes to a halt (which is intended) but because of missing ACPI support the OS cannot tell the computer to power off. Maybe if you could modify your /boot/grub/menu.lst (I believe that's the right file name?) and check for the various entries in there ... e.g. there might be some lines saying something like:

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title LinuxMint
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/hda10 splash=verbose
initrd /initrd-2.6.18.8-0.1-default

This example is from one of my systems ... which tend to be heavily modified. Don't worry if your stuff looks different (it probably will).

What we want is that "kernel .... " line. Can you please edit the file and add this parameter:

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sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Add this parameter:

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acpi=force

So the relevant line in question looks something like this:

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kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/hda10 splash=verbose acpi=force

Can you then please try again if shutdown works for you?