On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:55 +0200, Birger Wathne wrote: > Lon Hohberger wrote: > > > > Basically, the power button should really be a power button -- not a > > soft-power-button. Some BIOSes allow you to toggle whether it's a "soft > > power" or "hard power". > > Won't most bioses do a hard power if you just press the power button long > enough? Yeah, but iLO doesn't do this with the versions we support. It simulates a "button press". The 1.70+ firmware has "hold_power_button", but the 1.62 firmware only has "set_power_state off" (or something like it) which translates to "press_power_button" in the 1.70/1.75 firmware. The newer firmware solves this problem with the press_power_button, hold_power_button distinction, but unfortunately, we need to make the iLO agent more intelligent as to how it controls power without breaking compatibility with the 1.62 firmware. Ugly :) -- Lon -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
