On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:07:51PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > >justin bengtson wrote: > >> one of which i assume you have. any problems with linux? > >I have a TigerMP, the cheaper one. There were no Linux problems. >When I installed Mandrake 8,1, it just worked. When I moved my RedHat >6.1 disk onto it, I simply built an SMP kernel and was running. > >Oh, okay, there is one problem. An SMP kernel doesn't power down the >system when you halt it. You have to press and hold down the power >button. >
Does the SysRq thing work for poweroff? I was having trouble with the ACPI BIOS on my laptop not always powering off correctly after shutdown -h, but alt-sysrq-o did the trick. -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
