On Wednesday 25 June 2008 19:02:28 fred smith wrote:
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.
I have one of those mother boards with an 2.4 Athlon XP CPU, it had 5.1 on it, ( I was experimenting with software / hardware raid). Hope to find the time to put some more hard drives into it this weekend and put 5.2 on it and set it up as my central home file storage server. It never had a problem with shutting down with 5.1, I will report any problems / success after I have installed. It has had a few bios updates since I got it a few years ago. I also have an older AMD K6 550 MHz machine running Mandriva Linux and that had a problem shutting down with the latest version of Mandriva installed. John