Re: Getting "shutdown" to shut the power off.
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:12 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 10:00, Roy Pluschke wrote:
>
> > On January 25, 2005 00:09, Andreas Rippl wrote:
> >> > Problem: shutting down ends with the message "Power down" but I
> >> > have to cut the power off manually.
> >
> > I had the same problem on a recent (2 day old testing install
> > 2.4.27-2-686 kernel) and found that I had to manually add "apm" to my
> > /etc/modules file and edit /etc/default/halt to my preference. Then
> > everything worked as
> > expected. I didn't have to add any kernel parameters to grub.
>
> My /etc/default/halt already says this:
>
> # Default behaviour of shutdown -h / halt. Set to "halt" or "poweroff".
> HALT=poweroff
>
> I assume that's the right one (to really shut the machine off). I'll
> try the other suggestions too.
Once after trying a lot of the things that have been suggested, I
remember having to go into the bios of the machine and enable apm.
There was a bios setting which was toggled off.
Michael
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