Can't reboot from ssh command line

[Craig Hagerman]

On 9/5/05, Daniel Gilbert <ubuntu at danielgilbert.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 04:23 +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> 
> When I was first setting up a headless machine, i found that the BIOS
> would halt while POSTing because it didn't detect a keyboard.. I had to
> set an option in the BIOS to never halt because of a keyboard error (i
> can not recall the exact terminology)
> 

Thanks Gilbert - this IS the problem. I connected a keyboard and
suddenly it will reboot as it should. Now I will have to connect it to
a monitor again and see if i can play around with the BIOS. Gues this
wasn't a Ubutu question afterall, but I am sure glad you pointed me in
this direction. I never even though of the keyboard being an issue.

By the way... for the others who responded about the magic packet
thing - This is called Wake On Lan (WOL). I have used it before, but
it wakes up a sleeping computer. I used to wake up my mac desktop (in
my office) while I was using a Linux laptop on my sofa at home to scp
some files off it. But I don't think my motherboard can go to sleep. I
have another server with a similar setup (Debian AMD64), but that
motherboard (ASUS) can do the AMD "Cool 'n' Quiet" functions
perfectly. Most of the time the fans are off and it is dead silent.
This new machine has a BIOSTAR motherboard and it isn't set up for
spinning down the fans and ramping down the CPU.  :(

Craig