[NTLUG:Discuss] somewhat odd boot behavior

[Fred James]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 10:35:28PM -0600, Fred James wrote:
>   
>> Gigbyte(tm) S-Series G41M-ES2L motherboard
>> Intel Dual-Core E6600 LGA775 cpu
>> ATX-1072BP case from Frys (380W power supply)
>> OS: Mandriva 2008.0
>>
>> Has been running since December 2010 ... but boot/reboot has always
>> been a bit odd [...]
>> On this machine, both Restart and Shutdown preform a restart of X,
>> at which point one may either press the restart or the power button,
>> on the front of the computer.
>>     
>
> Could be the kernel and/or BIOS.  I had the same issue with my
> HP Pavilion Elite computer and Kubuntu 11.04 -- "shutdown" would
> always end up rebooting the system back into X.  In my case I
> decided it had something to do with weird ACPI settings and the
> BIOS, and never found a combination that works.
>
> However, installing Kubuntu 11.10 fixed the problem, such that
> shutdown properly powers off the machine when finished.  So I think
> a later kernel must have fixed whatever problem the earlier kernel
> exposed.
>
> Anyway, that's my $0.02; hope it helps.  You might try installing
> a newer version of Linux or Mandriva (perhaps in a separate partition)
> just to see if that resolves the problem for you.
>
> Pm
>   
In this case, I have one older box, and this newer box ... both running 
Mandriva 2008.0
The difference is that the older box has run older versions of Mandriva, 
although each install was a "clean" install rather than an upgrade (old 
OSs erased, as in partition formated and reused)
So, why one and not the other?  That's the thinking that lead me to the 
motherboard/BIOS/CPU ... but no gold as yet.
Thanks
Regards
Fred James