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I've got two different servers here that won't halt when they are told to.

They reboot instead:   (this is a serial console, and this is direct
from the conserver log)

[Wed Jun 13 15:40:19 2007]syncing disks... 3 done
[Wed Jun 13 15:40:19 2007]unmounting file systems... done
[Wed Jun 13 15:40:19 2007]
[Wed Jun 13 15:40:19 2007]The operating system has halted.
[Wed Jun 13 15:40:19 2007]Please press any key to reboot.
[Wed Jun 13 15:40:19 2007]
[Wed Jun 13 15:40:20 2007]rebooting...


No key was pressed.


One is an IBM eServer with dual Xeons, and the other is a Dell PE2650
with dual Xeons.

It would look to me almost as if their baseboard management controllers
somehow trigger a reset as soon as the HLT instruction is executed, but
I don't see any obvious setting at the BIOS level which might do that.

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