It possibly needs either different settings compiled in the kernel, or to have different parameters passed to the kernel on boot.
apm/acpi, its all a bloody mystery to me, but fiddling with such things has fixed this problem for me in the past. On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:22:28 +1200 Ian Laurenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok now I feel really thick - I still can not get the machine to power > down. > > I have tried changing the available power settings in the bios set-up > utility but no success in getting the computer to power down. > Everything displays as shutting down OK, then the following is > displayed: > Halting system... > md: stopping all md devices. > md: md0 switched to read-only mode. > Power down > > And nothing - it simply stops at this point without having powered down. > Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del breifly displays "md: stopping all md devices." > again before doing the reboot. I can turn the power off by pressing the > power button. > > It is running Mandrake10CE. I have tried it with Knoppix 3.3 and the > same thing happens. > > The motherboard is an Asrock K7VM4. > The bios setup utilty is AMIBIOS setup utility - version 3.31a. I have > downloaded and installed the latest bios. The only noticeable change > being that there is now a setting for AGP skew, and V-Link speed. > > > The options under the Power menu are: > > Suspend to Ram (Disabled/Auto) > Repost Video on STR Resume (Disabled/Enabled) > Restore on AC/Power Loss (Power Off/ Power On) > Ring-In Power On (Disabled/Enabled) > PCI Devices Power On (Disabled/Enabled) > PS/2 Keyboard Power On (Disabled/Any Key) > RTC Alarm Power On (Disabled/Enabled) > Then 4 settings for RTC Alarm, these being: Date, Hour, Minute, Second > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, Ian Laurenson > > On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 11:36, Patrick Dunford wrote: > > > > > On an ATX power supply, Power Management must be enabled in the bios > > > settings. If power management is disabled the power supply will not shut > > > down automatically. > > > > I have not seen a bios with an explicit setting for automatic shutdown. > > It usually falls under the setting mentioned above, and is not > > necessarily documented. > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
