Re: [CentOS] SOLVED - Shutdown/poweroff does not power off machine

2010-06-01 Thread Scot P. Floess
Finally moved that machine over to CentOS 5.5 - and tried the acpi=force It worked! Thanks again - that is awesome On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Michael Klinosky wrote: ken wrote: No, I'm not the OP. But, I found a solution for my system. During boot, I noticed an error line -- BIOS fails

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED - Shutdown/poweroff does not power off machine

2010-03-01 Thread ken
On 02/28/2010 05:25 PM Michael Klinosky wrote: Eero Volotinen wrote: On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote: ... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. However, under CentOS it doesn't turn the machine off whatsoever.

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED - Shutdown/poweroff does not power off machine

2010-03-01 Thread Michael Klinosky
ken wrote: No, I'm not the OP. But, I found a solution for my system. During boot, I noticed an error line -- BIOS fails cutoff age - ACPI might not work. Use acpi=force to fix. So I did; the machine now actually turns off after shutdown. Great work, Michael! Where did you insert/type in

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED - Shutdown/poweroff does not power off machine

2010-02-28 Thread Michael Klinosky
Eero Volotinen wrote: On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote: I've got a Dell Optiplex GX240 I am running CentOS 5.4 (kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5.centos.plus)... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. However, under CentOS

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED - Shutdown/poweroff does not power off machine

2010-02-28 Thread Scot P. Floess
Neat - I'll give that a try. The machine is running Fedora right now...but maybe I'll reinstall CentOS :) On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Michael Klinosky wrote: Eero Volotinen wrote: On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote: I've got a Dell Optiplex GX240 I am running CentOS 5.4 (kernel