It's not just a kernel or linux problem, but it's also caused by the BIOS,
specially with VIA chipsets like the MVP3. If you get a BIOS update, you
probably will fix this, or recompile the kernel to disable auto power down.
Tom Berkley, escribi�:
> Linux can shutdown your machine automatically AND safely only if you
> currently are running single processor mode. If you are shutting down
> from smp, the power manager has been disabled and is unavailable to do
> the shutdown. In the future maybe, but now from smp mode YOU get to push
> the button.
>
> Tom
>
> John Aldrich wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > > Hi..
> > > When I do a shutdown -h now the system shutsdown the various file
> > > systems and then says system is halted..After this mine says..stopping all md
> > > devices, the screen then is filled with columns of scrolling numbers like
> > > d3>][<c383fcff] [<c383058e>]....Could anyone tell me how to avoid this..
> > > It does not seem to affect the shutdown as I do not get a warning message on
> > > reboot..I tried a sync sync before shutdown but it made no difference......
> > >
> > Your system is trying to auto-power down. You need to tell
> > it not to attempt to power down. Sorry, I forgot what you
> > need to edit or what changes need to be made, but basically
> > it's the APM trying to shut down your machine. It's just
> > better to manually power it down by pushing the power
> > button than to let Linux power it down....
> > John
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