APM not rebooting or shutting down machine

APM not rebooting or shutting down machine

[Alan Womack]

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I've made some progress on my APM issues for the 9100C motherboard in my LFS server.

I know can get the console to blank and then turn off the monitor for lack of activity, however, actuallying getting a restart or a power off is proving problematic.

Through some other sources, I've gotten SMP out of my kernel (thought that was gone before) and set a couple of other items in my bios.

Attached is my kernel log and my kernel config.

Any thoughts?
Thanks
Alan

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Re: APM not rebooting or shutting down machine

[Paul Furness]

I don't know this seems a bit of an odd approach, but why don't you
check in the BIOS settings for power saving, and switch to "no power
saving" or whatever your BIOS calls the "Stop trying to turn this thing
off all the time" setting? It shouldn't be needed to do a restart (try
simply "init 6" instead of shutdown to see if the box will reboot
properly. You could also try ctrl-alt-delete on the console and see if
that reboots it). For the most part, servers are usually on all the time
and I don't even install any APM on most of them.

Once that's working, you can at least use the thing as a server ok; it's
rare that you need to remotely switch off a server (although I admit
that you might want to do that in certain circumstances). Since you are
probably going to be next to the box when you tell it to shut down,
pushing the power switch isn't really a problem :)

Hope this helps a little.

Paul.

On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 21:02, Alan Womack wrote:
> I've made some progress on my APM issues for the 9100C motherboard in my LFS server.
> 
> I know can get the console to blank and then turn off the monitor for lack of activity, however, actuallying getting a restart or a power off is proving problematic.
> 
> Through some other sources, I've gotten SMP out of my kernel (thought that was gone before) and set a couple of other items in my bios.
> 
> Attached is my kernel log and my kernel config.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> Thanks
> Alan
-- 
Paul Furness

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re: APM not rebooting or shutting down machine

[Alan Womack]

I have partially "fixed" the problem with APM by changing my 2.4.18 kernel to not use APM and to use ACPI.  I am now able to reboot the machine with shutdown -r now.  It did reboot just fine.

The poweroff command stopped there, but a "three finger salute" caused it to reboot.  Before I had to go hit the reset button.

I need to get the poweroff to shutdown as well so when I get my APC UPS connected and power has been lost, I need to be able to turn that machine off.  I supposed I could just have it powerdown and wait there, but, how does one get it to come back up when the power is restored?  Have to check the bios for that one.

Alan

 >>  Once that's working, you can at least use the thing as a server ok; it's
 >>  rare that you need to remotely switch off a server (although I admit
 >>  that you might want to do that in certain circumstances). Since you are
 >>  probably going to be next to the box when you tell it to shut down,
 >>  pushing the power switch isn't really a problem :)

 >>  Hope this helps a little.

 >>  Paul.




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