Well, that worked (of course). Thank you very much.
Sorry for bothering the list with something that trivial.
-Jim
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Todd A. Wood wrote:
> Jim Phillips wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On my Gateway Solo 2100 with a 2.2.0-pre6 kernel and
> > CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y the machine doesn't power down after shutdown.
> >
> > The rest of APM appears to function normally. The last two lines
> > displayed on the console are:
> >
> > The system is halted
> > System halted.
> >
> > This used to work with the 2.0 kernels. Thanks for looking into this.
> > Please reply directly to me as I don't subscribe to this list.
>
> Look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help
>
> CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF
> Enable the ability to power off the computer after the Linux kernel
> is halted. You will need software (e.g., a suitable version of the
> halt(8) command ("man 8 halt")) to cause the computer to power down.
> Recent versions of the sysvinit package available from
> ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/daemons/init/ (user:
> anonymous) contain support for this ("halt -p" shuts down Linux and
> powers off the computer, if executed from runlevel 0). As with the
> other APM options, this option may not work reliably with some APM
> BIOS implementations.
>
> --
> Red Hat Fix is to edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt
> change command="halt" to command="halt -p"
>
> Sincerely,
> Todd A. Wood
> Wood Consulting Group, Inc.
>
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