[CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

Mon Nov 5 18:28:50 UTC 2012
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca>

----- Original Message -----
| Hi,
| 
| am using latest C6 on a Dell GX270 with latest Bios.
| It fails to power down but restarts when running
| $ sudo poweroff
| 
| I tried some google hints for kernel boot option:
| acpi=force
| no help, looks like acpi is working anyway when looking in dmesg
| acpi=off
| makes e1000 nic fail to initialize
| 
| Any suggestions?
| Rainer


Update the BIOS.  Should fix it.  We had this issue a while back and the new BIOS corrected the issue.

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