Re: Shutdown and power off on a multi-processor machine

[Alex Deucher <adeucher@UU.NET>]

Compile a kernel with apm support and add the following to your
lilo.conf:

append="apm=power-off"

Alex


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I too am having trouble powering off and rebooting an SMP machine. It 
is a Tyan Tiger 230. I have tried to report this a few times with 
little to no response. The last kernel that worked for me in this 
respect was 2.4.6-ac2. I have tried linus' and alan's kernels both with 
no success. I have tried configuring all kernel with APM soft-power 
off, real-mode power off (I enable power-off even though the rest of APM 
is broken on SMP), ACPI (multiple setups), and nothing at all. None of 
these kernel/configuration combos allow me to shutdown or reboot my 
machine. I would like to be able to and I know the board still works 
because Windows 2000/XP (even though I hate using them) both manage to 
shutdown/reboot the machine properly. I have everything I can think of 
copiled in statically instead of as modules and also have PNPBIOS enable 
in the kernel and the BIOS. Any help would be appreciated. 

Jordan 

Shawn McGovern wrote: 
> 
> I have a need for a headless machine to power off at the end of shutdown, 
> but cannot get it to work for smp kernels. I tried 2.2.14, and 2.4.9, 
> built with smp and apm. If there is a way to make this work, I would 
> really appreciate any advice. If it cannot be done I would sure like to 
> know that too, so I can stop banging my head on this particular wall. 
> Please send responses to me directly as I am not on this list. TIA. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> Shawn 
>