On Thursday, Jun 19th 2003 at 09:06 -0500, quoth Chris Adams:
=>Once upon a time, Neil Bird <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
=>> We've just installed a spanking new RH9 on a Compaq, and it doesn't =>> power-off itself, just hanging after shutdown with "power off".
=>> =>> There's no /proc/apm, and I can't even find an apm kernel module. Is =>> it not used any more? Where does it come from? apmd is installed & =>> enabled, but it just doesn't start (no /etc/apm or apm module).
=>
=>Your new box probably doesn't support APM, it probably only supports
=>ACPI, and since ACPI support in Linux is not so good, RHL 9 doesn't
=>include it (so your box won't power off from Linux).
No. I can't remember what the incantation is but there's an APPEND= that's needed in your grub.conf to make APM automatically shut off for SMP boxes.
Does anyone remember what it is?
you can try:
# vi /mnt/hda1/boot/grub/grub.conf
<snip>
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) shrike
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/1 hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
</snip>-- shrek-m
