Type 'poweroff' from the command prompt. I found that for some reason that using the shutdown command doesn't power the system off. But the poweroff command does.. Hope this helps Wolf |-----Original Message----- |From: Nathan [mailto:tron@ircd-net.org] |Sent: Thursday, 17 October 2002 02:10 pm |To: psyche-list@redhat.com |Subject: Re: Power-Off problem | | |Same thing happends here with a machine at work |and I'm begining to think there is something turned off |by default that makes it so it won't tell the motherboard |to power off. All the other OSs that are apart of that |machine to seem to have no problem doing a power off. | |The machine has a swap bay so I can switch HDDs to |switch between OSs promptly for beta testing and so forth. :) | | | | -Nathan M. | |----- Original Message ----- |From: "Stephen Liu" <satimis@writeme.com> |To: <psyche-list@redhat.com> |Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 10:55 PM |Subject: Power-Off problem | | |> Hi All Folks, |> |> CPU AMD Athlon 1.4G |> Motherboard 2thMax 8KHA |> ATX system |> |> I suffered this problem since running RH7.3. My RH8.0 was upgraded |> from a RH7.3 box |> |> During "shutdown PC" on graphic mode RH8.0 closed but the PC is not |> power-off. Following text displayed on screen |> |> - snip - |> Halting system |> md: stopping all md devices |> flushing ide device : hda hdc hdd |> Power down |> |> The screen hangs here and power is still on. |> |> When "shutdown PC" on Console window with command |> |> # shutdown -y -g0 |> |> same result. |> |> Previously I have been playing around with BIOS and PC setup but no |> solution reached |> |> Any advice. |> |> Thanks in advance. |> |> Stephen Liu ###################################################################### Attention: This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal www.marshalsoftware.com ###################################################################### -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
