On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 07:17:34PM -0600, James Nickerson wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 October 2003 02:18 pm, Ryan Bowman wrote: > > Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll try them out shortly, however, I > > suddenly developed an odd problem. Typing halt now has the effect of > > reboot. I checked that symlink /usr/bin/halt still points to /sbin/halt, > > so why is it suddenly rebooting every time I shut down? > > Sometimes that's just your hardware. Does it shut down properly in other > distros? I have one machine that I never could really get to shut down. I > just halt/reboot'd it and cut the power after it finished the halt part. > Good luck, though, finding something more elegant.
When you compile your kernel there's an option under APM for powering down in real mode. It may or may not solve your problem, but it's worth a try.
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