Patrick R. Wade wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:07:51PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
> >
> >I have a TigerMP, the cheaper one.  There were no Linux problems.
> >When I installed Mandrake 8,1, it just worked.  When I moved my RedHat
> >6.1 disk onto it, I simply built an SMP kernel and was running.
> >
> >Oh, okay, there is one problem.  An SMP kernel doesn't power down the
> >system when you halt it.  You have to press and hold down the power
> >button.
> 
> Does the SysRq thing work for poweroff?  I was having trouble with the
> ACPI BIOS on my laptop not always powering off correctly after shutdown -h,
> but alt-sysrq-o did the trick.

No, it does not.  Too bad.

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Bob Miller                              K<bob>
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