Things have changed regarding my shutdown problem, but have got even more confusing.
But first, I have just connected for the first time today, to get my e-mails and postings. I have found that there is nothing from the list between about eight o'clock last night (GMT, or UTC) and mid-day today. I have no idea where any postings between those times have gone to, so if anyone has been kind enough to send me a reply, I am afraid that it has "gone" :( I'll look in the archives to see if I can find the missing postings. I have been busy trying to sort things. I have installed several distributions in turn, on my spare hard drive to see what shutdown problems there are with other distros. There were none with two of them, so I installed Mandrake10.0 Official. That gave me the choice of several boots: Linux (no shutdown problems) Linux-smp (wouldn't shut down) linux-nonfb (no shutdown problems) 263-7 (no shutdown problems) Failsafe and floppy, which I didn't test. Before, with 10.0, I have only had the choice of Linux, 263-7, failsafe and floppy. So, I did a clean installation of 10.1. That gave me the choice of: Linux (wouldn't shut down) Linux-nonfb (wouldn't shut down) Failsafe and floppy So, I am back to 10.0 on my spare hard drive to send this, and will use that unless someone could please give me some advice about the "work-around" needed with 10.1. Does it still look like hardware problems? By the way, sorry if I went a bit "over the top" last night, but I was tired and the information I was given was a real blow. I had only got my new computer the previous day. Any help will be very gratefully received. Thanks Keith
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