On Monday 08 March 2004 12:58 am, Eric Brower wrote: > Janos Sziliczi wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've compiled a 2.4.25 kernel. > > When I'd typed the 'halt' command as root, the Linux shutdowned and the > > machine turned off automatically (no 'power-off' needed on PROM prompt). > > This tends to hit the list once every few weeks. > > In both sparc and sparc64 the kernel will not power-off systems that are > running with a serial console-- instead they are dropped to OBP (2.2.x > did not act this way). I believe Pete was going to remove this "safety > measure" in sparc a while back but I don't believe it has been done. > > If you are running a sparc kernel, remove the check for !serial_console
But be warned that if you tell an E150 to power-off you will have great weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth getting it to restart. Rather drop to OBP and pull the power.
