Re: Getting "shutdown" to shut the power off.

[Andreas Rippl <a.rippl@gmx.net>]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 08:30:26PM +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
> Hardware: ASRock K7S8X motherboard, Athlon 1100 processor.
> Kernels: all the ones I've tried on this machine.
> 
> Problem: shutting down ends with the message "Power down" but I have to
> cut the power off manually.
> 
> I've tried booting with "apc=on" and "apm=power-off" kernel options, but
> they didn't help.  I find this message recurring in /var/log/messages:
> Jan 23 18:24:04 garcia kernel: apm: BIOS not found.
> 
> I'd appreciate any suggestions.
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Adam
> 
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Hi Adam,


I had the same problem, but only when running a Multi-Processor kernel for 
some reason, i.e 2.6.7-1-686 works fine, but 2.6.7-1-686-smp doesn't shut 
off the power. In what I guess is just another way of doing what Andrew 
proposed, I just put an 'append' option into the bootmanager config file 
(lilo in my case):

append="<your other options here> apm=power-off"

Then I load the apm module without options and I get a full shutdown.


Good luck,

Andreas