Apparently, a BIOS setting of "last power state" means something different to HP than to everyone else. It seems to be that poweroff gets a response of "oh, you couldn't *possibly* want to turn me off! You just want me to restart!" HP DL160 Gen8, CentOS 6.4 mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos