Hi, for your question :
This is a summary of what I have done: I set the APM option in the kernel 2.2.10. if I do "halt", my box act like the use of "reboot" : it reboots using the shutdown of windows95 act as i want : power off the computer the command : #ps aux |grep apm root 2169 0.0 0.3 1148 416 pts/0 S 15:39 0:00 grep apm* to be sure I am recompiling my kernel.