On 8/22/07, Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 15:25 -0500, Kevin Day wrote: > > > > halt, poweroff, shutdown -<anything> etc. But it does respond to > > > whatever the bootscripts do when you get a drive error. > > At some point in the process of changing kernel/binutils/gcc/uClibc, > > the poweroff just stopped "powering off" for me. It would shutdown > > the harddrive and say your os is off, meanwhile my entire machine and > > moniter is running, but is unresponsive because the kernel is > > unloaded. (maybe an initng version ended up breaking this??) > > This happens on every hardware I try and it pisses me off as I cannot > > find the fix. I've swapped versions of binutils, gcc, uclibc, initng, > > etc.. > > I am pretty sure it's an apm/acpi thing. It does come up in the kernel > compile. > Just looking at kernel configs, you have nearly all the ACPI options set > in the one you sent to me, but my hlfs config only has the ACPI poweroff > settings set. But shutdown -<any> now does _NOT_ work in HLFS. Only the > bootscript manages, which intrigues me > > > > > > > If I fill /etc/fstab with random nonsense, it will fail to mount, and > > > power off until I fix it. HOW? That's the question. I did look at the > > > scripts, but .... cannot answer that for myself. > > Elaborate. > Okay, I recently added a drive, then removed one. On bootup with lines > in fstab for /dev/hdcN (which didn't exist) lfs-bootscripts let the > first one go, and said 'that's a mistake'. On the second one, it decided > 'I'm out of here' and successfully powered the box off, and the box went > off - electrically. I'd _love_ to know how it did that! No other halt > command on any system of that vintage or later manages to power the box > off electrically. BTW, windows can do power it off :-(, but I don't have > windows any more. > > > Try to forcefully boot into the os by specifying init=/bin/bash in the > > This is not the point. The point is I want to find how the box turns > off. I can get always going if needs be with a bit of B.F.+I. :-D. > -- > With Best Regards, > > Declan Moriarty. > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Based on how old you're making the system sound, try disabling ACPI and just using APM. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
