On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Nikolaos Margaritis wrote:

> My problem is that although the system can do an automatic poweroff from
> Windows '98 it does not seem to want to cooperate when I type 'halt', or 'halt
> -d', or 'poweroff' from linux. I have downloaded SysVinit-2.71-3 but nothing
> changes. 
> 
> Has anybody else come across this situation? Any help will be greatly
> appreciated.
Um. Have you included APM in the kernel? Have you changed /etc/rc.d/rc.0
(or equivalent) to use 'halt -p' instead of just halt? Do you have a sane
bios?
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