Fred Snurd wrote: > I've just resurrected an old Pentium 3 system with the 22 October i386 > snapshot of OpenBSD 4.6-current. It works great, however after issuing > "shutdown -hp now" (I'm greeted with the message "shutdown: switch -p must > be used with -h." when using "shutdown -p now"), I'm getting the system > message "syncing disks... done" followed by "Attempting to power down...". > The system never shuts off. > > From the dmesg (below), this appears to be an old APM-based motherboard. > The shutdown(8) manpage states that not all hardware supports automatic > power down. That's fine if this hardware doesn't support it, but given > the "Attempting to power down..." message, I am curious if it might be > possible. >
If I remember correctly, the following hack in /etc/sysctl.conf worked for me on a Pentium II machine: machdep.apmhalt=1 # 1=powerdown hack, try if halt -p doesn't work (I can't verify it because the machine is totally disconnected right now) regards, Remco
