On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, P. R. Seshan wrote:
->As I can see that the debate on Swap space goes on, I've another point
->to raise. In few of Linux installations that I've done I notice that the
->-p parameter (for poweroff) of halt command (/etc/rc.d/init.d/halt) is
->giving some trouble.
->
->It throws junk characters on the screen when this power off operation
->has to take place raising an segmentation fault. Can someone explain the
->importance of Power off operation during shut down? Can I remove the -p
->parameter from the halt script ?
Did you built your kernel with apm options enabled? The default kernel that
comes with most distributions does not enable apm option. Secondly does you
bios support apm? Without the kernel support I don't think poweroff will
work?
Nagarjuna
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