At 01:44 PM 1/8/02 +0800, you wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:39:04PM +0800, Ian C. Sison wrote:
>> > Some mobos have broken BIOS in that if an OS issues a call to reboot,
>> > it doesn't \8( i have just such a box beside me now. Thing is, it's
>> > erratic, but mostly fails rather than succeeds.
>> >
>> > Solution? Change the motherboard!
>>
>> The newer Linux kernels have an option in their APM settings that allows
>> you to work around broken BIOSes. Try recompiling your kernel with
>> the use real-mode APM BIOS call to power off option enabled.
>
>I think the problem was rebooting the server, not powering it down
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the thing is i can power it down but how about if i connecting at home and
i cant restart just because its never restart again, the thing is i have to
power it down before the server runs again, i dont have any problem in
halting, my main ptroblem is restarting it with this command "shutdown -r
now.....{^0^}
oninz
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