On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:47:10PM -0500, Robert wrote:
Olaf Mueller wrote:
fred smith wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:46:53PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote:
fred smith wrote:
- "shutdown -h now" goes all the way down but does not power down
the box like it always has before. Same when shutting down via the GUI shutdown dialog.
I know this from systems with older processors. For me a 'apm=power-off' in the /etc/grub.conf kernel-line does the trick.
would your "older" include an Athlon XP 2600+ ?
No, of course not. My older processors are pII, pIII and athlon, from 266MHz to 800MHz.
regards Olaf
As an added data point, since the OP seems concerned about Athlon XP2600+, I am running that processor in an ASUS A7N8X2.0 Deluxe m/b ACPI BIOS Rev 1008 and it powered down just fine following the CentOS 5.2 upgrade. Here's the first stanza of grub.conf: #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.1.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.img
and here's mine (including Olaf's suggested change):
#boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz #hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.1.el5) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ quiet apm=power-off initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.img
I have to say that adding the apm=power-off didn't change a thing, it still doesn't shut off the power. Now, I can't say with certainty when I last saw it do that, because i rarely shut down the box. It runs my mail server for the household, so it runs for months at a time, but I know that it has in the past always worked whenever I've watched it go down.
I just booted the prevous kernel and noticed that it doesn't power off either. Strange. I know it used to work (I've been using Centos, and formerly Tao Linux on this board since it was new.)
This is a gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 board, nvidia chipset, nvidia graphics card (old GeForce 4).
Any other advice you can come up with (while I go do some googling) would be appreciated.