Re: Shutdown problem on Tyan S2875 opteron SMP

["Martin Jambor" <jambormartin@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 9/16/06, garrone <pgarrone@acay.com.au> wrote:
> > >The command "shutdown -h" does not completely poweroff the system
> > >for kernels 2.6.11, 2.6.12, and 2.6.16. However 2.6.8 does
> > >turn off as it should!
> >
> Thanks. I was momentarily excited that 2.6.8 worked but the others
> didnt, suggesting that the problem was with the linux kernel rather
> than the board. However the situation where some kernel versions
> work and others don't now suggests to me that the problem is more likely
> to be with the board than the kernel. The linux code seems to follow
> the standard pretty closely. I tried 2.6.17 and that does
> not work either. I am running bios 3.03.

Maybe I am stating the obvious, but have you had a look at and
compared  the configurations of the kernels that do and don't work?

I run vanilla kernels and whenever such problems arise (on both amd64
and i386) it is most certainly my configuration error, not a kernel
version issue (there have been exceptions like burning through ATA
etc. though).

HTH

Martin