Before you starting thinking "we have been down this road before on the list", please read the following, because you are only partially correct. There are some conclusions and one of them seems to be that APIC in the SuSE kernel is flawed from 7.3 on. This may be true, but there is a big "however". In mucking around in YAST 2 "configure boot mode" to see if I could find anything about using APM (apm=on apm=power-off) and got too far into the dialog. YAST 2 tried to write to the MBR with a failure (See "Bloody Hell and Lilo") Interestingly, during the time I have spent correcting the problems incurred, I have discovered the following: 1) A line in lilo.conf that includes "disableapic apm=on" will power down my computer If I have started my installed system using the "boot existing system" option when using CD 1. 2) When booting without using CD 1, I have tried both "enableapic" and "enableapic" + "apm=off" as boot option, rather than modifying lilo.conf, yet neither of the boot options worked (i.e. powered down my box). So, there seem to be a couple of questions involved here: a) What is different between booting from the installed system with the help of CD 1 and without CD 1? There has to be something different in the implementation of something, but what? b) Is lilo.conf bypassed when booting the installed system from CD 1? If not, why does a set of commands in lilo.conf work with booting a system from CD 1, while the same commands don't work when just booting the system normally? c) How will this info help me to get my friggin box to power down? Cheers, Brian
c) How will this info help me to get my friggin box to power down?
I finally got it and man was it simple. Brian you have the same box of stuff so try this: add apm=realmode-power-off to your append parameters in Yast 2 -bootloader. Make sure you save the changes and Make sure you reboot your computer not just shut it down.REBOOT it --that was my failure to think saving would be good enough. AMD Athlon on Soyo KADA? --Boom! shuts down bloody fast. GO SWEDEN!
On Wednesday 12 June 2002 14:23, Thom Nuzum wrote: - I finally got it and man was it simple. - - Brian you have the same box of stuff so try this: - - add apm=realmode-power-off to your append parameters in Yast 2 - -bootloader. I would rather stay away from YAST2 after my experience earlier on my "Bloody Lilo" thread. But this could be added directly into lilo.conf. I assume this would go under the global settings? - Make sure you save the changes and Make sure you reboot your computer - not just shut it down.REBOOT it --that was my failure to think saving - would be good enough. OK. - AMD Athlon on Soyo KADA? --Boom! shuts down bloody fast. Great, I'll give it a try. I was about to dump APM and recompile the kernel. - GO SWEDEN! Yeah, yeah. Let's wait and see until after the Denmark-England match on Saturday ;-) Cheers, Brian
On Wednesday 12 June 2002 14:23, Thom Nuzum wrote: - I finally got it and man was it simple. - - Brian you have the same box of stuff so try this: - - add apm=realmode-power-off to your append parameters in Yast 2 - -bootloader. - - Make sure you save the changes and Make sure you reboot your computer - not just shut it down.REBOOT it --that was my failure to think saving - would be good enough. - - AMD Athlon on Soyo KADA? --Boom! shuts down bloody fast. OK, did it directly in lilo.conf, in the global settings and seems to work so far. I'll give it a couple of days, but it looks like a winner. Just like the Danish team at the World Cup ;-) Thanks. Brian
On Friday, 14 June 2002 00:58, Brian Durant wrote:
On Wednesday 12 June 2002 14:23, Thom Nuzum wrote: I finally got it and man was it simple. try this: add apm=realmode-power-off to your append parameters in Yast 2 -bootloader.
I'd have loved to say, "Success!", but I can't. I didn't bother with YaST2, I went directly to /etc/lilo.conf (as I have done more times than I can remember), and still can't get this computer to powerdown with 7.3. What it really eats me up is that 7.2 (and Mandrake 8.1) did it without any effort on my part. -- Regards, gr, in /usually/ sunny, balmy Florida's Suncoast.
On Saturday 15 June 2002 08:19, gilson redrick wrote: - I'd have loved to say, "Success!", but I can't. I didn't bother with YaST2, - I - went directly to /etc/lilo.conf (as I have done more times than I can - - remember), and still can't get this computer to powerdown with 7.3. What it - really eats me up is that 7.2 (and Mandrake 8.1) did it without any effort - on - my part. You must have a different motherboard than Thom and I do? We are both using a Soyo Dragon Plus motherboard. Unfortunately, trying to get all of these different hardware types to work is a real pain in the arse for any distro. Mandrake may have gotten it right for your hardware. They also may be the only ones that have. Please provide more info to the list about what you have and don't have to the list and maybe someone out there can help you. Here are the three main areas that you need to provide info about: 1) Hardware. Motherboard, processor and anything else that may be relevant. 2) What is implemented in your kernel? ACPI, APM, etc.? 3) BIOS info may be relevant as well. I am thin ice here, so let's see what others have to say. Brian
On Saturday, 15 June 2002 01:41, Brian Durant wrote:
Here are the three main areas that you need to provide info about:
1) Hardware. Motherboard: Trigem Delhi3 Micro ATX processor: AMD-K6 e-Tower 333k
2) What is implemented in your kernel? ACPI, APM, etc.? BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz disableapic ide=nodma apm=realmode-power-off Linux 2.4.10-4GB, SuSE 7.3-Pers.
3) BIOS: American Megatrends v.1.11, 07/15/95
Thanks. -- Regards, gr, in /usually/ sunny, balmy Florida's Suncoast.
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