On Thursday 03 June 2004 07:27 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Thursday 03 June 2004 06:10 pm, Walt Frampus wrote: > > I have a Compaq Presario 3077wm duel booting winxp and Mandrake 10 > > official. When I went to shut it down, everything did so normally. A > > while later, I noticed a light on the laptop was lit and realized that > > Mandrake rebooted again so I shut it down a second time. I checked it a > > while later and found the screen blank but when I hit the enter button, > > mandrake was still running. I had to reboot into windows (which I never > > use) to get the laptop to shut down. I turned off all the power controls > > and still have the problem. My desktop shuts down with no problem. > > Anyone else having this problem? Is it just a version 10 problem? I > > didn't have this problem with 9.2. > > > > Walt > > I have a Presario 1700T which will go to "power down" and sit. I have to > hold the button down for 4 secs to power off. I believe it is a function of > the mobo and you may have to disable ACPI or APM. Not sure, what about > anyone else?
Starting your kernel with the nolapic parameter should stop this behavior. Add it to the append line in /etc/lilo.conf and then run lilo as root. After next reboot, the shutdown should work properly. -- /g
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